hi everybody...I'm just a newbie in the nimrod community and my experience in system languages is really poor, I only remember them in my academic life since some years ago...I've used several moderns and unknown (in its moments) languages, like scala,clojure,fsharp,livescript,boo,julia and R...and there is something really interesting in nimrod...there are not any blog post about it, not articles nor posts, I think than there are really nice languages which are not so popular because them are from niches, nimrod seems to be a good fit in very fields, it's fun and not so complex, we need articles to talk about the language, show its potencial and features, in my case I will write an article comparing several aspects of nimrod with scala and fsharp...I know I know...nimrod isn't a functional language, but it fit better for fun programmers than go, which is becoming in an option for many fun programmers (although it's really boring and type system limited lang) so nimrod seems a good option...
we need a roadmap for show where the community who love nimrod help...and this not mean find bugs (which is important) is how to sell the language to other communities...
Functional languages are becoming very popular so I think write an article about how is nimrod compared to others func langs would be very cool...keeping the idea than nimrod is multiparadigm and not totally functional of course...articles comparing nimrod to python and ruby could be very useful...
show the potencial in performance of nimrod and how is it clear could be nice, small little projects could be cool too...
the differents communities are really interested in mobile development, delphi said this some days ago where shows than 80 percent developers are interested in languages which allow mobile dev...we need create better tools for mobile development, with nimrod is not hard create mobile apps for ios or android but we need more clean tools and info....
now...I suppose than not many nimrod developers has blogs or many times, I think than create a site similar to www.r-bloggers.com would be a big punch, but instead be a simple aggregator would be cool a site where the nimrod developers could write and publish articles...R community is really small compared to others but it's really vibrant and for me a big inspiration, with this help could be possible than many nimrod developers be interested in write about it and share his knowledge...
what do you think?...I wanna hear how we help to nimrod, show your love and say present if you're able to help to nimrod :D
Tutorials and explanations can only help. For instance, I spent about an hour learning about the thread model, using examples from the test folder (and occaisionally peaking at the library source). The kind thing for me to do now is distill this into a little article and take people through the thinking particular to the Nimrod thread model. Then the reader is spared some work (probably more than an hour), so there is a net gain.
But then we need (at least) an article aggregator, so that there's links to all those articles.
It's always a good time to publicize Nimrod :)
@steved: yes, writing articles is the best way to spread the word. As for link aggregators we can create a page on the wiki on github or submit the links on the nimrod subreddit.
yes dom, maybe an extension from the nimrod main page, something simple where the community can publish articles with basic tools like markdown,nimrod cod highlight and comments would be great...
the language and the tools are importants but the language will remain unknown if the others communities doesn't hear about it or if they feels than the nimrod community is not enough active or friendly, sometimes a small community has it benefits, but an unfriendly or not active community never could be positive for any language...