> Yes, not to mention, when was the last time you heard someone call somebody else a nimrod? 1890s England?
I hear it all the time. Probably nearly daily. It depends on your circles, I suppose.
Re:Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
by aaron-lebo on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:41PM
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I apologize for making such a broad statement.
What portion of the US do you live in?
Why do you assume RogerL lives in the US? (RogerL probably does, but what makes you think so?)
As others have said, nimrod-as-an-insult seems to be a thing mostly in the US.
Nim should follow the tooling around Go and just steal all of the good parts. I think Nim's main competitor is Julia. I'd focus on weaving Nim and RoboVM code together so one could leverage all the libs from Java/JVM while getting native performance.
It can't hurt and Nim is a short and memorable name. Realistically it will probably have very little impact (and the core devs likely know this). Whether Nim gains widespread adoption has a lot more to do with whether it can compete successfully with Rust, C++, or whatever is remotely similar to it. D, for example, has a really good name (the successor to C), but hasn't become heavily used in industry despite what advantages it does have and years of development.