On: Why Nim?

[andsoitis]

When there's a vacuum like that, that is also an opportunity for folks to make a significant impact.

Compare to other communities where you need to stand out from the noise.

[lifthrasiir → andsoitis]

That's plus for individuals but minus for languages.

Personal anecdote: I was exactly there a decade ago when I was working on Chrono, now one of best-known date and time libraries in Rust. Since I was simply my own, my design was not as good as it could have been. Of course it is still much better to have a suboptimal Chrono, but I can't deny that it remains and probably will remain suboptimal due to my design a decade ago.

[hk__2 → andsoitis]

This usually ends up in a situation where most of the significant libraries for the language are abandoned GitHub repos with 13 stars and no documentation ("You just have to read the code!!1!").

[ivanjermakov → hk__2]

Abandoned (finished) with no docs (read/copy/hack the source). I'm surprised how devs are afraid to look behind the curtain of a library/os/compiler.

[scuff3d → andsoitis]

Perfect examples of glass-half empty vs glass-half full kinds of people.