[afavour]

I tried out Nim. My first reaction was that I absolutely loved it. Second reaction was when I needed to look up how to do something and I realised that the docs aren't amazing. Third reaction was when I first ran into a problem I couldn't find anything on Google, and had to post on the Nim forums. The forums were great but there's an inevitable time lag between posting and getting a response.

Then I started looking at Rust. For my purposes, first reaction to Rust was that I hated it. Borrow checker, lifetimes, all the stuff everyone complains about. But once I got over the initial bump it ticked all of the above boxes that Nim didn't, and I ended up appreciating the guardrails it provides around safety that Nim doesn't (or didn't, a lot has happened with garbage collection etc. since I last looked).

If I had more free time in life I'd absolutely be making side projects in Nim.

[planetis]

> I ended up appreciating the guardrails it provides around safety that Nim doesn't...

fwiw this is plain wrong, a garbage collected language in general is memory safe, just with a different scheme (a garbage collector) than rust's memory model. Both are better options from one that is unmanaged.

I hate to attract negative attention from rust fanboys. But none likes Rust's borrow checker and hopefully language developers can come up with a better design.

[Akira1364]

What exactly is wrong with Nim's docs, in your opinion? They seem fine after perusing the ones at the following link a bit just now:

https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html

[ZoomZoomZoom]

IMO, while the descriptive department is passable, the docs seriously lack on the prescriptive side. What I found extremely helpful when dabbling with Rust, is that every module in STD docs has a pretty comprehensive general description and usage suggestions, often accompanied by some examples. It really works great lifting the curse of knowledge for the uninitiated and it doesn't get in the way when the reader already knows what he's after as thse introductions are easily skippable.

[boogies]

> The forums were great but there's an inevitable time lag between posting and getting a response.

FWIW the core devs and many others are present on the #nim channel on Freenode with bridges to Discord, Gitter, and (non-Gitter) Matrix.

[cb321]

Many people find just searching the big index [1] to be enough. Besides the Forum and the IRC (often more immediate), there is also a Wiki [2] where you can maybe contribute documentation for "what you would have liked to have seen" and numerous other documentation things off of [3].

It's true the "just web search it" approach may be weaker than other programming languages. That's a late stage network effect (as is lower latency of Forum/IRC responses).

[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/theindex.html

[2] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki

[3] https://nim-lang.org/documentation.html