Hi All,
I'm interested in using Nim for corporate use. Everything looks great technically speaking, but what's the organizational structure? Is their a Nim foundation? How old is Andreas? Are the financials of the organization sufficient at this time?
If there's already an article addressing these concerns, please link and I'll give it a read.
Thank you!
The financials are fine and for years to come I'll work on Nim and hire other people to work on it. I'm 40 years old.
I lost all interest in setting up a foundation because I lost faith in mankind. Every day I wake up in this clownworld where people replaced the "master" branch with "main", sending a strong message "fuck you" to everybody who is older than 50 and has a hard time to change old habits.
Here is a hint: If you are obsessed with racism and sexism it's because you're a racist and sexist. Now go and cancel "He-Man - Masters of the Universe" because obviously He-Man is a slave owner.
Would you rather be right or be happy? You sound like someone who doomscrolls political rage bait. You are doing great with Nim, why sour your own mood with politics?
Sure, you could continue being a culture warrior and defend Nim from the evil that is corporate PC culture. And then what? Spend the next decades yelling at clouds?
I think you'd be surprised how much easier life gets once you let go of these fights without return on investment.
Glad to see, everything is good on those fronts.
I like Nim and will likely use it because it's so good.
That being said, did you see what happened to Daniel McKay from GrapheneOS?
I hope you're not too stressed @Andreas.
Additionally are their any publicly available user numbers or downloads per month?
Based on a conservative estimate I presume there are at least 150,000 active users. (15.2k Github stars at a 10% user/ start click rate)
Great that Nim made the stackoverflow surveys!
Though I'd argue that the Nim usage among stackoverflow users would be smaller than Nim's overall usage by some factor. I've only used SO for Nim once or twice as usually I just grep the manual.
I did not answer this survey, though I use SO a lot. It needed quite some time to fill it up. I do not remember the exact participation of Nim users among the participants of Reddit (0.34%), but that was seemingly low since the average money made by Nim users is among the greatests.
Additionally are their any publicly available user numbers or downloads per month?
https://plausible.io/nim-lang.org -> These numbers show the number of people consulting the docs. Some people consult the docs offline or do not need to look at the docs. Some people just consult the website. It is still the most visible way to estimate the number of users for me. You can guess also from the number of stars on GitHub and some statistics from the number of contributors.
I registered specifically to say that Araq is - as the kids these days say - "based as fuck". Thank you Araq, Nim will stand out in my brain for a long long time as "that language with a based leader who gave a big middle finger to diversity mafia".
Cheers, here's to the end of the clownery.
This topic has veered far away from the actual topic. We're also seeing users join just to leave messages which furthers its off-topic nature.
To avoid this just becoming a flame-war I'm closing this. Any further questions about the actual succession plans for Nim could be addressed in a separate topic.