[kbd]

It's a small thing, but I'm so glad they renamed it to "Nim". Its prior name carries such a negative connotation, while just shortening that gave a name that's cute and simple.

[jwecker]

Fun fact- Nimrod means mighty hunter. The negative connotation came from early Bugs Bunny cartoons where he applies the name sarcastically to Elmer Fudd.

[evilduck]

Kind of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod

There's definitely a much older negative connotation than the Bugs Bunny usage.

[jessaustin]

You don't like big waterfall projects like the Tower of Babel? You must be one of those microservices people... b^)

[sigzero]

Also a very cool future sentinel in the X-Men comics.

[Dewie3]

The voices of American programmers are loud and many.

[platz]

At least we still have Coq

[vezzy-fnord]

I'm one who actually preferred Nimrod, but it's done by now.

[david-given]

Ah --- I didn't know this was Nimrod! I remember looking at that a few years ago and thinking 'this is awesome but not quite ready yet'.

I need to have another look at Nim. It even looks like it's in Debian!

[Dewie3]

`git` also carries negative connotations. But at least that was intentional.