Hey, OP here! Sorry about Defender flagging on this. I'm putting it through some tests and will tweet the Nim devs to see why this is an issue. I've used Nim for a while now and never had any problems. And from some light googling, it looks like this is a known false positive issue. In any case, apologies for the scare!
kcartlidge|4 years ago
I'm very much averse to trusting the supplier of an installer enough to disable security checks, especially for a development toolkit where on the remote chance it is real it propagates into what I build on that toolchain, so I'll probably revisit at a later date.
As a fan of Modula-2 and Pascal I've always found the look of the Nim syntax appealing, so I'm quite looking forward to another way of coding cross-platform desktop apps (I avoid Electron and Mono, which usually leaves Lazarus) and your post reads quite interesting in that regard.