nimble

`nimble` is the package manager for the programming language `nim` [1]. From [2], we can see that `nimble scss` simply generates the CSS files for the frontend. The benefit of OSS is you can answer these questions yourself with a bit of poking around! IMO this is a fairly standard installation process, maybe the fact that it's using Nim instead of a more mainstream language makes it look more daunting than it is. The only out-of-the-ordinary thing here, IMO, is `nimble build` instead of `make build`. [1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble [2]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble

Something I'm excited about: v1.6.2 integrates support for (not yet released) Nimble[1] v0.14, which will introduce project lockfiles. I've had terrible experiences with lockfiles in JS land, but they are sorely needed for Nim projects as (fingers crossed) they'll allow for reproducible builds without having to resort to the nimbus-build-system[2]. The latter isn't completely horrible — a lot of much appreciated hard work has gone into it, and it's been a real workhorse — but some days it feels like a big ball and chain. I'll be much happier when I can cruise along with choosenim[3] and lockfiles and not have to worry about Makefile + submodules shenanigans. [1] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble#readme [2] https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-build-system#readme [3] https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#readme