NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open(nim-lang.org) |
NimConf 2026: Dates Announced, Registrations Open(nim-lang.org) |
> NimConf 2026 is an online conference and it will take place on June 20th. It will be streamed for free and it doesn’t require any traveling - you will be able to participate from your home, without any travel and accommodation expenses.
Most code I write is still Nim though.
In practice, it's turned out to be an "expert's tool" that's more expressive-convenient than C/++ to do all manner of things in the realm of systems programming, from embedded to HPC. And it's got great C/++ interop, so you can continue to leverage those software ecosystems.
In that respect, I'd say the biggest boon, rather than a killer project, would be for a famous programmer or shop to publicly and loudly adopt it as their everyday language, shouting its name for several years and saying things like "Wish we had started using this years ago, would have been so much better, look at all of these great apps and libraries we've been able to create and maintain more easily than if we'd stuck with C/++/Go/Rust/Swift!"
Can't wait for NimConf, it is way overdue.
Does anyone know of an IRL conference or meetup on Nim, preferably in EU?
Do nim programmers not see the need for abstracting out behavior in a manner that different implementations can be switched somewhere else, or is there different idiomatic way to handle this?
But as others said already, Nimony (codename for the next Nim iteration) introduces revamped concepts which should be even more convenient.
Every year millions of university students design new languages across the globe on their compiler classes.
To productise any of them, there is a whole ecosystem that needs to be added on top, editors, graphical debugging, packages, AI tooling....
Nim had a real chance at gaining a foothold, it just needed a company to back it. I think sadly that ship has sailed by now.
I think Python is actually kind of the worst language of the top langs to be the lingua franca of AI, where more niche statically typed languages like Nim are better suited.
Finally, due to AI market share pressure, JITs in Python are a real thing, after all those years of PyPy being largely ignored.
Examples, workato, boomi, opal,....
Many automations that used to be written in programming languages, deployed via serverless or containers, are now agents driven by prompts.
...or counterproductive, lmao