Few days ago I wanted to make a start using Nim for some personal projects, so I thought I would go to INim REPL to play with it. At first sight the project looks abandoned, with the last PR dating back to 1 year ago.
I have asked in the INim repo https://github.com/inim-repl/INim/issues/138 but got no answer and well I was wondering if there is interest in the community to use it. I would like to implement some things there to make it more complete.
If there are better REPL alternatives, I would like to know them too!
i've been using inim with version-2-0 with 0 problems
IMO/experience many nim packages are stable and feature complete, rather than stale/abandoned
Hi Noah, thanks for the answer.
Maybe it was not clear from my post, my question was just like, if I wanted to develop that library further, can I just fork it and go my way?
The authors are not answering on github and I would like to get in touch with them, also to ask few things about the code. Is there a place outside of the repo and this forum where Nim maintenairs are discussing stuff like this? I am just new here.
This is just my opinion, but if the maintainers are unresponsive, or even if your opinion just diverges from the maintainers', then its perfectly reasonable to fork the project (with a name change) to continue development. That's what open source is for!
Most discussion happens either here or in the Discord (also accessible via Matrix or IRC bridges). But overall Nim is a small community.
If you do fork INim, please do advertise here, on discord and in the "this month" blog posts. I also use Inim as-is currently but I'd be happy to see new features (colors? better completion?)
Yes, fork away! I wanted to like in, but it often misses the indentation, even if typed correctly.
Also hot code reloading would be a massive improvement.