Nim needs to move it's discussions to a mailing list if the authors want to gain more serious developers onboard.
Polling a poorly implemented web forum speaks leaps and bounds about the kind of attitude you need to have to discuss, develop or debug issues around the Nim toolchain.
This is something that Nim developers can instantly do to boost the attractiveness of the language.
The web forum is better than 90% of the forums out there. It is very fast, looks great, has syntax highlighting and a fast search. How could you possibly think that a mailing list is better? What is this, 1981? I hate mailing lists. The github issues is where a lot of serious discussion goes on and if you give github your email and contribute or subscribe you can get spammed with every single issue discussion like me. Anyway I think the highest bandwidth most advanced option is sometimes IRC which of course Nim has too.
> about the kind of attitude you need to have to discuss, develop or debug issues around the Nim toolchain
Well, it's the kind of attitude that let me contribute to the language, and fix bugs despite being rather new to it all, so I'll be honest and say that I think it's quite good. Aside from that, the IRC channel is always super busy and amazingly helpful. I think a mailing-list is a good thing, sure, but it's not the be-all-end-all, in my humble opinion.
Can you point me to these serious developers who would be using Nim or contributing to Nim if a Nim mailing list existed? If I have proof that these developers exist then I may actually implement it.
Polling a poorly implemented web forum speaks leaps and bounds about the kind of attitude you need to have to discuss, develop or debug issues around the Nim toolchain.
This is something that Nim developers can instantly do to boost the attractiveness of the language.
Please, do this.