nimforum mirror - nimrods future

adrianv (orginal) [2012-09-23T21:17:03+02:00] view original

Hi everybody out there,

in the past months I played around with nimrod and I really become a fan of it. Now I am thinking about how to help to make this language a success. From the activity in this forum it is clear, that there are only some early adopters around. But this is far from enough to make it fly. So now I want to initiate a discussion about how to help to spread the word. I was already thinking about to write a book - but at the current state it will be outdated when the ink is dried. So what do YOU think ?

cheers,

Adrian.

exhu (orginal) [2012-09-24T00:12:47+02:00] view original

IMHO, it's not stable enough in its advanced features and that can scare away some potential users like me. Only now when 0.9 release is out I consider implementing a tool in this language. Unfortunately I have little spare time to be involved in the compiler development, and the best help you can do is to fix bugs and implement features...

Araq (orginal) [2012-09-30T01:32:33+02:00] view original

The language is almost completely finished in my head ;-) and I will write a book some day. You're of course allowed to write a book about it before I do if I can review it before it goes to print.

For a start it would help if you could do some marketing and participate in discussions about it.

Rezan (orginal) [2013-02-22T21:15:40+01:00] view original

Some of mine humble suggestion : every tool used by/with/for nimrod most be declared in the first page like editors . Assuring portability on mobile devices (android,ios,symbian^3) . Parallel project/softwar illustrating/teaching nimrod preferably simple 3d game as many new comers aspiring game developing. And Documentation/tutorials/internationalization ^10000!!!

gradha (orginal) [2013-02-22T21:36:48+01:00] view original

Portability on mobile devices is more or less guaranteed since all platforms support C code, and that's what nimrod generates. You can see an initial setup for ios/android in the examples folder https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/tree/master/examples/cross_calculator.

No true easy direct integration with objc/java yet, but at least it runs.

Albert1 (orginal) [2013-02-28T15:00:48+01:00] view original

Hi, I've been playing with Nimrod for a little and, after reading this thread, I simply couldn't resist anymore, so I decided to join the forum. I'm an aspiring shareware game developer and, while my current project is mostly in C/C++, I've been looking for a feasible, modern, native alternative to said languages. I tried many native languages yet the single language that in my opinion has incredible appeal on game developers is Nimrod. And while it's quite young, it already has good bindings, while more famous C++-successor-wannabes fail to even provide you a decent mean to deal with the Win32 API! These days, however, what's a language without a vocal Benevolent Dictator for Life? ;) Really, I've been looking for a picture of Andreas, maybe even a short bio, and while these things don't directly influence the quality of his amazing work, I think that a little more visibility of the language designer would help a lot! After all, even in these days of virtual social relationships, we're still fundamentally the - curious - bipeds we were centuries ago, and I wouldn't be surprised if the greater popularity of some not-so-great-and-well-designed new native languages is due to the visibility - and vocality - of their designers.

gradha (orginal) [2013-02-28T23:12:53+01:00] view original

So basically you want to know if Araq has a beard? We all know languages designed by bearded people are great. Who knows, Araq talks a lot about facebook plugins for the compiler, we might see his pictures whenever he gets to implement them.

Albert1 (orginal) [2013-02-28T23:40:19+01:00] view original

@gradha: :)

Araq (orginal) [2013-03-01T00:28:27+01:00] view original

I'm preparing a blog, but writing good blog articles is more work than fixing bugs or implementing new features, so it always feels like a bad tradeoff. And indeed I'm not on Facebook or Google+, the internet is distracting enough already. ;-)

Issue 9 has Robe Pike behind it, D has Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu, Nimrod has some random stranger nobody has ever heard of. Live with it. That doesn't mean I'm a bad dictator. ;-)

Rezan (orginal) [2013-03-06T11:00:06+01:00] view original

Come one people need to c u man ;)

Araq (orginal) [2013-05-27T19:49:31+02:00] view original

There are rumors you can find a picture of me here: https://thestrangeloop.com/preconf

sky_khan (orginal) [2013-05-28T02:29:46+02:00] view original

Oh no! You have no beard ? Nimrod is doomed :P

btw, I'm a newcomer who loves this language at first sight. I have not done anything with it yet but it looks like it is my dream language so far :)

Kenneth_Sills (orginal) [2013-05-28T03:22:54+02:00] view original

Oh, you didn't know? He can spontaneously grow beards. He just keeps it inside most of the time, to prevent intimidating those who aren't quite as godly.

Albert1 (orginal) [2013-06-14T00:09:12+02:00] view original

Will there be a publicly available video of your talk?

dom96 (orginal) [2013-06-14T02:44:33+02:00] view original

Will there be a publicly available video of your talk?

I asked them on twitter and they said that they are not sure yet: https://twitter.com/emerginglangs/status/335484998775873536

Araq (orginal) [2013-06-15T16:06:40+02:00] view original

Will there be a publicly available video of your talk?

The chance for that is very good. But in the worst case I will post the slides here.

dom96 (orginal) [2013-06-15T19:05:37+02:00] view original

> Will there be a publicly available video of your talk? The chance for that is very good. But in the worst case I will post the slides here.

You should post the slides after the conference regardless of whether a video is released or not :)

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