[refaqtor]

I'm using Nim in production since .18 with zero issues. I spent many years in Qt/C++ and was reasonably quick, but not as quick as I was with D. But then, in an evening, from a cold start, using nothing more than the two Nim Tutorial pages that I happened to have cached in my browser (I was away from a network connection) I was able to redesign and reimplement the bulk of my application in Nim that had taken me one week in D and two in C++. Qt/C++ was great to go from desktop to server to android/iphone. Qt is a bit of a burden on embedded, and D didn't cross-compile easily as Nim. I like banging out standalone executables starting from a two line "script" and evolving up to a complex server. I like Python, but find datatype or whitespace issues that crop up only in runtime intolerable. Compiled Nim won't allow that in the first place - and is very helpful with error messages. I'm also infuriated by getting a "cross-platform" Python script that won't run on my machine because I haven't configured and installed all the dependencies that were on the original developer's machine! Anyway, I'd say pick a small app and have a go. After that, you won't want to waste the mental capacity to use anything else. For knocking out commandline apps, I recommend "cligen" for quick and clean options, or "docopt" for friendlier cli options.

[jyapayne]

I'm curious, what do you use as an alternative to Qt for Nim?

[refaqtor]

Well, if you're talking GUI stuff, nothing in Nim compares to Qt. But, I did routinely use Qt for console, server, and headless embedded stuff. The Qt environment compensated for lots of C++ shortcomings up to recently. I think I've seen a Nim linkage to QML (Qt's newer Javascript UI markup language). But, I've never been all that keen on it. Depends what you need in a GUI. QML worked well for me on android/ios apps. I guess I'm just old school when it comes to desktop apps, and I can bang out a Qt gui app in a hurry for the desktop. A few times, in D, I'd written all of the logic for the application in D as a console app with a command handler that worked on stdin that would generate the same Qt data model on stdout that a Qt GUI app would use to populate its model-bound tables and whatnot. Worked surprisingly well. But, to end this treatise on the state of nim gui stuff... I've had some fun with nimx, but keep trying the more native stuff. give 'em a try.