There is a GitHub icon directly at the top right of the side so your first two steps can be combined into one shorter one. But yes, screenshots should absolutely be on the home page, and prominently so.
> I can't say why the scientists aren't flocking to Nim, but as someone who wants to support them wherever they go, it's why I'm uncertain if it was the right call.
Because most scientists are only using programming as a tool and don't care one bit about it beyond what they need it to do. They don't go looking for new tools all the time, they just ask their supervisor or colleague and then by default/network effects you get Python, Fortran, or C"++". You need a killer argument to convince them to do anything new. To most of them suggesting a new language is like suggesting to use a hammer of a different color to a smith - pointless. With enough time and effort you can certainly convince people, but even then it's hard. It took me years to convince even just one person to use matplotlib instead of gnuplot when I was working in academia. You can obviously put that on my lack of social skills, but still.
Well first of all, C++ is the language you'd be using to power a rocket engine. And second, that code is a terrible example because most of it isn't C++. Large parts of that are very C like or directly C because it's using the Windows API.
> Which is impossible to do properly, because those keyboards differ from US keyboards in their geometry, not just in the labeling of the keys.
The only difference is that on US keyboards the enter key is smaller and left shift is larger, leading to the "\" key being moved one down and one left on a German keyboard (and also being duplicated to left of z (German label: y)). So even if you move from a physical US keyboard to a physical German one while keeping the US layout, it's literally just one key where you'd have to retrain your hand. And for people that have learned to type on a German keyboard this is not a problem at all since they have never typed on a physical US one and using a different mapping means a training period anyway.
Source: German who mapped his keyboard to US (+ some AltGr modifiers for the German characters I need).
I don't know about the other European layouts, but I assume it's somewhat similar for them too.
While that is true, there might be other requirements that prevent memory safe languages from being used. For example not having a heap available instantly disqualifies most of them. Or when you have simulations running where having constant OOB and other checks would be a massive slowdown. Now obviously your code should still be memory safe (because otherwise it's not correct anyway and you should fix the code), but not at the cost of runtime checks.
> We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship.
Normally I'd agree with you on that the tyranny of the minority is a bad thing, but sometimes the minority actually has a point and this is one of the cases where the minority is _objectively_ correct and letting the majority decide would end up in a complete dystopia. Democracy only works if everyone is informed (and able to think logically/critically, not influenced (either by force or by salary), etc.) and in this case the 99% simply do not have any clue on the effects of this being implemented (nor do they care). This entire proposal is pure orwellian shit.
> In LaTeX you can have actual boldface letters, so you should write a boldface letter R to represent the real numbers and so on.
Almost [1] every single student absolutely hates that notation in scripts. Bold is used to draw attention, it should not be abused as being part of the variable/type. Just use the proper symbol.
[1] And I'm only saying "almost" to account for the possibility of there being like 5 super weird people on this planet that think otherwise. I don't know a single person who thinks this is a good idea, even the professors writing their scripts like that think it's stupid and are only doing it due to some nonsense fear of it otherwise not printing correctly due to one single bad experience with a shitty printer in 1950. Or maybe there's some other historical reason for this, but in 2023 I'd classify not using the better notation as malicious.
That's a pretty ignorant view, there's tons of developers using Windows. If you take a look at the SO survey (or similar ones), Windows has 47% in the "Professional use" category.
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