[JNRowe]

> Most of them were specific to Windows, which casts a lot of doubt on its cross-platform promise.

Oh. That really surprised me, as I had assumed the bugbears I have as an occasional nim user were because it was developed for/on Windows primarily. Actually bothering to take a look seems to show me that isn't the case at all.

Bugbears such as the linking story on Linux¹, the argument handling², the style and verbosity of the compiler output, [a bunch of others]. Nothing show stopping to be fair, but a bunch of things that just seem out of place(and that always seem to require explanation when co-workers see a nim tool).

1. https://github.com/nim-lang/rfcs/issues/58

2. https://nim-lang.org/docs/parseopt.html , although alleviated by argparse to some extent.