Aporia

My enthusiasm is greatly lessened. The IDE doesn't compile on Mac OS X. Even worse, the developers don't care, and keep closing the issue. https://github.com/nimrod-code/Aporia/issues/37#ref-issue-17... As a rule, I avoid any project where the developers have too much of the it-doesn't-work-and-I-don't-care attitude, mainly because you can't build on top of a foundation that isn't maintained fastidiously--you'll waste all your time fixing the foundation and won't get productive work done. Culture matters.

Nimrod by default compiles to C. Its REPL is just an extra feature which as of right now is not stable because few people use it. It for example doesn't even support the FFI currently. As for whether Nimrod is production quality, I would say yes. The compiler is written in Nimrod which is impressive in itself. I have written many projects in it already and even though the compiler is still not at 1.0 the projects continue to build with no (or very little) errors between new compiler versions. Examples of my nimrod projects: an IDE (https://github.com/nimrod-code/aporia), a build farm (https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimbuild) and a web framework (https://github.com/dom96/jester). The Nimrod forum (http://forum.nimrod-code.org) is also written in Nimrod.

If I may also use this opportunity to advertise a Pascal-like language, as it is also severely underrated. The language's name is Nimrod [1], it compiles to C so it is also very portable, uses whitespace to delimit blocks, is statically typed with generics and has great support for metaprogramming. I am developing an IDE for it called Aporia [2], it is written in Nimrod, it definitely doesn't have as many features as Lazarus but it works well as a simple editor. Other nimrod projects can be found in the nimrod-code organisation on github[3]. [1] - http://nimrod-code.org [2] - https://github.com/nimrod-code/aporia [3] - https://github.com/nimrod-code/

Perhaps I can give you some useful nimrod-specific advice as I myself have created many Nimrod projects[1][2][3]. The best thing to do is to keep up to date on what's happening in the Nimrod world, breaking changes are rare but when they do happen they are announced in the changelog on the Nimrod website and in the Nimrod repo on github, IRC is also a good way to stay up to date. I started my contributions to Nimrod by basically writing and improving the standard library as well as creating random fun toy projects. I've also seen other people learning the language by contributing to all sorts of Nimrod projects on github, mainly my Aporia repo which includes a todo list and is generally pretty easy to modify as it's still quite small. [1] https://github.com/nimrod-code/Aporia [2] https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimbuild [3] https://github.