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9304 :: openSUSE Reaches First-Class Support for Nim Language

• miran (orginal) [2022-07-14T12:44:46+02:00] view original

  See here: https://news.opensuse.org/2022/07/14/os-reaches-first-class-support-for-nim/

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• cblake (orginal) [2022-07-14T15:22:46+02:00] view original

  Not sure what "first class" and "support" really means. The announcement text suggests they just install the main Nim distribution. Still, it's nice to see an announcement.

  It perhaps bears noting that Gentoo has had a dev-lang/nim ebuild in their official repository for like 6+ years. I think it kind of pre-dates the git-ification of their process in 2015 and my recollection is that there was an ebuild around in 2014.

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• federico3 (orginal) [2022-07-14T19:59:10+02:00] view original

  Nim is provided by many distributions at this time. Repology provides a (somewhat simplistic) overview: https://repology.org/project/nim/badges

  Debian (and its derivatives) provides Nim since 2015 and a handful of libraries. They can be listed with apt-cache rdepends nim

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• cblake (orginal) [2022-07-15T22:51:31+02:00] view original

  In terms of reaching beyond the base compiler distro, there is some work here on Gentoo ebuilds that wrap nimble builds. I've not evaluated its particulars, but she has some whole mini portage tree with dev-nim ebuilds. Things in this general direction would help less advanced/more lazy (Linux) users of software that happens to be written in Nim to just install it how they install most things. That, in turn, should help adoption. It may sound hard, but there are a lot fewer Linux package managers than Linux distros.. Maybe there are rpm/deb/pacman/Nix/etc. equivalents to this preliminary ebuild work? If so, that work should be encouraged! :-)

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