Recently in the chat, there was a conversation about several prominent Nim developers moving on to different language pastures, which made me curious.
When I read about people discovering Nim, they're excited - the first impression is often good - but what causes them to later leave?
Nim conducts a survey every year - what has been gleaned from it? How do years compare with each other? What are the trends?
Recently in the chat
any links?
Don't remember the specifics, but the conversation was around useful third-party libraries no longer maintained.. emacs mode, a few other, that sort of stuff.. and above all, anecdotal.
Some hard data on this, ie how often it happens and why, would be interesting to see.
Nim isn't something you just quit.
A part of Nim stays in you, always.
Every missing semicolon that D smacks you for, every undefined WTFism in C++, every second you wait for your 40mb Golang binary to upload, every time you realize that half of your screen is taken up by repetitive boilerplate code.... you remember Nim...