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by codexon 4149 days ago
I love how Nim is getting along but I am rather afraid to put in production.

The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

https://github.com/Araq/Nim/labels/High%20Priority

And also from what I've heard, the tooling isn't very good. Autocomplete isn't context sensitive and using GDB to resolve a variable like "foo" actually becomes "foo_randomnumber".
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jostmon 4148 days ago
> The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

This is actually one of the things that keeps turning me away each time I try Nim. All software has bugs, got it, but in my mind a language nearing 1.0 should squash some of that list (or remove/feature gate things causing them) before even thinking about a 1.0 IMO.

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dom96 4148 days ago
In my opinion, 1.0 is about the language specification becoming stable. That said, some experimental features have actually been gated in preparation for the 1.0 release.
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GravityWell 4148 days ago
> The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary.

I see similar lists for GCC when a branch is underway. I'm actually impressed with the number of active contributors, and I find the design very compelling. I'll be keeping an eye on this project.

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