Law of Marketing for Successful Programming Languages: the basic examples should...

w-ll · on Feb 9, 2015

There are still tons of problems that need solving that don't involve these things.

swah · on Feb 9, 2015

Sure, but they don't sell programming languages in these Node/Go times...

mwfunk · on Feb 9, 2015

If all you do is web development, all programming languages look like tools to build web sites with I guess. I don't think the author was trying to sell anything, it seemed like more of a gift to like-minded individuals.

pekk · on Feb 10, 2015

It is incredibly obvious that Nim is being sold as hard as it can be sold

coolsunglasses · on Feb 9, 2015

My Haskell article for HowIStart was CSV data processing. shrug

girvo · on Feb 10, 2015

HowIStart isn't something that I'd considering "marketing" for the language, personally. It does what it says on the tin: teach you how to get started from scratch with the language.

However, you are correct somewhat; this is why on Nim's homepage[0] there is an example of Jester (a web server/routing DSL)!

[0] http://nim-lang.org/