14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Nim first-hand: 11 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I used to play around with Nim, and that was quite nice though.”
endorse · personal · FridgeSeal · 2024-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I messed around with it quite a bit a few years ago and it really hits a sweet spot in terms of language size”
endorse · personal · eindiran · 2023-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hey I do, and report bugs which eventually are all getting fixed. ... Perhaps give it a shot?”
endorse · personal · planetis · 2022-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Checkout Nim! I've used it to great effect for embedded programming.”
endorse · personal · elcritch · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Nim for a few years now. You're right, it is fun, by syntax alone. The performance is great, too.”
endorse · personal · 3 yr · jasfi · 2021-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I been using it professionally for more than 3 years now.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · treeform · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Nim is fantastic! I've been using it for a small project of mine which involves web scraping”
endorse · personal · ajusa · 2020-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When raw performance is needed, Nim gives us the tools to reach for it.”
endorse · production · mratsim · 2019-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Nim for quite a while and these identifier rules have never been an issue.”
endorse · personal · citycide · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Nim for years and never ran into a collision between different variables”
endorse · personal · nimmer · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“These haven't stopped me from being productive with it, but you should be prepared for the occasional "huh?" situation”
mixed · personal · rbehrends · 2013-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It's such a nice language to play with, but as my day-job stuff is mostly web-based I haven't had a chance to use it in production yet.”
endorse · personal · girvo · 2013-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using grep with nim code daily and it was not an issue.”
neutral · personal · planetis · 2022-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using nim for a few years.”
neutral · personal · 3 yr · sekao · 2021-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?