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fuckstick | 3 years ago

Without disagreeing on the specific points about the tooling, I’m not convinced. Golang took off with a far weaker tooling story. Maybe the table stakes have changed in a decade - but I believe other factors are more important. Moreover I remain skeptical that even if those tooling issues were fixed tomorrow it would help Nim turn the corner.

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0cf8612b2e1e|3 years ago

> Golang took off with a far weaker tooling story

All Go had to do was say, “Built by Google” and people came running.

elcritch|3 years ago

Well, the "designed by UNIX co-creator" piece helped too I'm sure.

silisili|3 years ago

Dart was built by Google, and nobody wants to touch it. Well, a few diehard fans.

Go is a nice language that gets a lot right. Saying people only use it because of Google is kinda shortsighted.

winrid|3 years ago

Maybe! It would get me on board, though :) I'm working on a new server side project and am using Java for now, because of this reason. I hope someday I have time to help build IDE plugins and so on :)

goodpoint|3 years ago

> Golang took off with a far weaker tooling story

Corporate marketing budget and related astroturfing.