On: NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

[dleslie]

I can't think of a single grievance fork of an already-unpopular esoteric language that went on to become a serious industry-shifting project.

What's the elevator pitch, is it just social grievance with the Nim developers? Because that's all I get from the readme.

[sph → dleslie]

unpopular != not popular

esoteric != novel

Nim is not well known or used a lot in production, but it is neither unpopular nor esoteric.

[dleslie → sph]

It's neither in the PYPL nor TIOBE top-20, or even top-50, for popularity.

[Brian_K_White → dleslie]

so what?

[kamikazechaser → dleslie]

> already-unpopular esoteric language

Bold assumptions

[dleslie → kamikazechaser]

It's neither in the PYPL nor TIOBE top-20, or even top-50, for popularity.