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Observed mentions: 2014-12-29 18:14:36 UTC to 2025-12-05 17:17:42 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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cb321·Dec 5, 2025
The only way to really test out a programming language is by trying it out or reading how someone else approached a problem that you're interested in/know about. There are over 2200 nimble packages now. Maybe not an eye-popping number, but there's still a good chance that somewhere in the json at https://github.com/nim-lang/packages you will find something interesting. There is also RosettaCode.org which has a lot of Nim example code. This, of course, does not speak to the main point of this subthread about the founder but just to some "side ideas".
In Nimony (Nim 3.0) Design Principles
dom96·Aug 19, 2018
You can have a decentralised package manager that has support for a centralised package listing. This is what Nimble (Nim's package manager) does, there is a packages repo[1] which simply maps package names to Git/Hg repo URLs. So you can easily depend on URLs or package names. Of course, even this can be considered decentralised since different package repos can be used easily. This is especially useful for private packages. 1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/packages
In Introduction to Go Modules
dom96·May 27, 2017
Judging by the upvotes there is a lot of interest in hearing answers to this question and yet there are few comments so far. I will share my thoughts but keep in mind that I am (extremely) biased as I am one of the core Nim devs. > How has your experience been compared to your previous tech? Previous to using Nim I was primarily using Python. This was a few years ago now, but recently I was working on a project in Python and found myself yearning for Nim. There were multiple reasons for this, but what stuck with me was how much I missed static typing. The Python project used type hints which I found rather awkward to use (of course the fact that we didn't enforce their use didn't help, but it felt like such a half-baked solution). Dependencies very often required multiple guesses and searches through stack overflow to get working. And the
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resulting program was slow. As far as I'm concerned, Nim is Python done right. It produces fast dependency-free binaries and has a strong type system with support for generics. Of course, that isn't to say that Nim is a perfect language (but then what is). For example, JetBrains has done a brilliant job with PyCharm. Nim could use a good IDE like PyCharm and with its strong typing it has the potential to work even better. > How mature is the standard library? To be honest the standard library does need some work. In the next release we do plan on making some breaking changes, but we always lean on the side of keeping compatibility even though Nim is still pre-1.0. Of course, sometimes this is not possible. > How abundant are third party libraries? Not as abundant as I would like. Great news is that you can help change that :) The Nimble package manager is still relatively new, but you can get a pretty good idea of the third party libraries available by looking at the package list repo[1]. Hope that helps. Please feel free to AMA, I'd love to introduce you to our community. 1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/packages/blob/master/packages.js...
In Ask HN: Does anyone use Nim language in production?
kartikkumar·Dec 29, 2014
I'm intrigued by Nim after browsing through some of the basic tutorials. Looks quite straightforward to get started. As with other languages I look at, for my use-cases it's important for me to understand0 if scientific packages are available and if there's a "scientific computing ecosystem". I had a look through the `packages.json` [1] listing for Nimble [2] and couldn't really spot the maths packages that I'd need, e.g., numerical integration, optimization, linear algebra. Given that I can't find any of those, I'm guessing there aren't any physics packages either e.g., Newtonian mechanics, physical constants etc. Maybe maths libraries are available as ports to e.g., Eigen, NLOPT etc.? Can anyone that is more familiar with the community comment on the potential of Nim as a language for scientific computing, in contrast to e.g., Julia? [1
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] https://github.com/nim-lang/packages/blob/master/packages.js... [2] https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimble [3] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page [4] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt EDIT: Fixed typos
In Nim Programming Language Tutorial

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