Comment by seanw444

Definitely agree that there are rough edges, but Nim is in a better state than ever. The LSP isn't great yet, I'll agree with that. There are great optional type libraries for working around exceptions if you don't want them, and the new memory management system (ARC/ORC) is very efficient compared to the old refc implementation (now much more like the C++/Rust approach).

For parallel programming, there are also handy libraries. The best of which is Weave[1], but Malebolgia[2] is authored by the creator of Nim and works well in its own way too.

There is also active work being done on a new implementation of Nim which intends to clean up the some of the long-term spaghetti that the current implementation has turned into (like most long-term projects do), called Nimony[3], and is also led by the original creator of Nim. It is years away from production according to him, but is at least in the works.

I'd have to say Nim is by far my favorite programming language. The terseness, flexibility, and high performance, make it feel almost sci-fi to me. My only major complaint currently is the tooling, but even the tooling is still adequate. I'm glad it exists. Highly recommend.

[1] https://github.com/mratsim/weave

[2] https://github.com/Araq/malebolgia

[3] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimony