Inspired by the recent Rust community survey, with the help of others I have created a Nim community survey! I appreciate any and all submissions, please also spread the word if possible. I will publicise the results once the survey is finished!
@moigagoo: You are right. Nevertheless 'Sonstiges' instead of 'Other' looks strange if the question and all other possible answers are in English.
How does the site recognize that I'm German? I use English as language in Linux, my locale is en_GB.utf8, and even in Firefox the preferred language is configured as English.
-- Manfred
The only idea I have is that Google uses my ip-address to see where I live.
-- Manfred
I regard this strategy as strange.
It basically means that for instance an American (not speaking German) but being on vacation in Germany would get German language for sites who decide on their own based on the ip address.
-- Manfred
Hm, interesting.
Perhaps, your provider gets you an ip address which will be wrongly geo located. You could check your ip address for instance, here: https://www.iplocation.net/
Stability of Nim is really important, what if someone used Nim for banks or hospitals and a failure happen because of instability of the Nim language?!
Nim is a compiler. If you write a program for a bank and it works. How should the "unstable" language break the executable?
The dangers are something else:
You wrote the software for a bank with Nim and after some releases your software does not work anymore with a newer Nim compiler which forces you to rewrite big parts. You still could use the old compiler though. I think stuff like this happens all the time with all languages. Following Nim "devel" makes this happen more often of course.
A new release/revision may also introduce bugs in places which where working before. But that can also happen with any other "stable" compiler.
Then there is the possibility that the stdlibrary or the GC has errors which result in wrong behavior or crashes of the program. This also is hardly something only Nim has as problem and can still happen with Nim 2.3.
I believe the "stability" promise is about "fixing bugs" for a release. The evolving language may be part of Nim forever ... as is is with all other languages.