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Re:Advent of Nim by jamespo on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:44AM (#18559777)
Maybe you could contribute to it
Re:Advent of Nim by qaq on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:52AM (#18559808)
Pretty far from my area of expertise. BTW. I have 0 expectation that someone has to solve my problem but when looking at a lang to me the minimum req. are good PG support and decent http lib which is obviously not the requirements people actively working on Nim have.
Re:Advent of Nim by mratsim on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:21AM (#18559956)
Nim forum is written in pure Nim[1] and is using httpbeast[2] as a backend.

[1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

[2]: https://github.com/dom96/httpbeast

In terms of features it's powerful enough to build a Discourse-like forum enough. In terms of performance it's very well performing in the TechEmpower benchmarks[3] it is competing in. It even grabbed first place on JSON serialization on Cloud hardware.

[3]: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=... and https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/1152#27100

Re:Advent of Nim by qaq on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:13AM (#18560736)
OK english is not my native lang so maybe I am not formulating things clearly I did not try to suggest that nim does not have good http lib. I was just saying my 2 core requirements good http lib and high quality mature PostgreSQL driver. Nim has good Http lib Nim does not have async PG driver that I would feel confident using in prod.
Re:Advent of Nim by vram22 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:24AM (#18560839)
The D forum is also written in D (it's called DFeed, IIRC), and it's fast (anecdotally).