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Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by dialamac on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:05PM (#25065949)
I don’t see your point. A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go. Nim is certainly not the only player in this realm, but far as I know there isn’t a “Nim Drama” Twitter or tumblr. The drama queen stereotype of Ruby and Rails is very well earned on a repeated basis. All the communities have had their dramas but Ruby and Rust to a lesser extent seem to attract it a lot more as a pattern.
Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by cambalache on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:21PM (#25066402)
> A large base of Nim users are looking for a pragmatic alternative to the C/C++ family without the aggressive anti-modernism of Go.

You guys make this too easy. Unless it was sarcasm, so whoosh me, and chapeau!

Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by ImprobableTruth on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:45AM (#25068790)
Well, you sure make a good case for Rubyists being incredibly pretentious.
Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by ForHackernews on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:07AM (#25068932)
Hardly anyone uses Nim. It's extremely niche, even compared to something like Rust. That's why there's no Nim infighting.

Before you can have dozens of people fighting about a thing, you need more than a dozen people to care about that thing.

Re:Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (2004) by dom96 on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:54AM (#25080436)
Oh believe me. There definitely is infighting. The people doing the infighting just haven’t started trying to involve the wider audience (yet?) :)