[MrMan]

I am using nim this week on a data file scraping project. If you can Google and write python you can just start with nim and learn as you go, very easy.

I am super bummed that there is (effectively) no debugging. I am too lazy to mess with VS code to get gdb working, it should just work already. Someday, I guess. Maybe jetbrains will save us. With real IDE support nim would sweep the nations.

[moigagoo]

From my experience, there really is not that much need for debugging in the sense of adding breakpoints and attaching to a running process with Nim. Honestly, `debugEcho` suffices, give it a shot. I mean, you may need more debugging tools when your project gets large but since you're just starting with Nim, you can just relax and keep going.

[MrMan]

Relax is my strategy right now but I am a bear of little brain and spent years with Matlab stopped in the debugger while I went to lunch. Peering into data at will is something I can't easily give up. Debug trace was how I spent the stressful young years of my programming life and for data intensive, rather than logic intensive transactional code, I don't prefer tracing.