Pierre BourdonJul 3, 2023

Add Nim to the list of languages whose community and leadership are openly sexist and racist. Was wondering when D would stop being alone on that list...

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/10312

> Is there a Nim foundation?

> The wokes, they're cancelling He-Man!

(h/t Steve Klabnik on Birdsite)

Nim forum

Show threadHugo DevillersJul 3, 2023
@delroth I can't believe all those cool reactionary programming languages led by a "BDFL" would have reactionary politics and authoritarian leadership styles.
Show threadbumble's (🐝) rumple (🦄)Jul 3, 2023

@gob

No disagreement, any, but how is the language reactionary? I'm not really familiar with Nim so I may just be missing something obvious.

Show threadHugo Devillers

@WammKD It seems to follow in this tiresome trend of people making C-killers that are just C with dubious syntactic sugar and a weakly typed compile-time subset bolted on top.

Those neoC languages are basically just C/C++/D again, and have to justify their existence by demonizing and rallying against X (where X can be anything orthodox: type safety, garbage collection or shared librairies).

Jul 3, 2023 at 10:12amWeb
Show threadHugo DevillersJul 3, 2023
@WammKD Nim doesn't have anything egregious on the front page to be fair, so maybe it's not entirely misguided from a technical perspective. But that's kinda moot now given the politics of its BDFL (the fact there is a BDFL is an anti-feature in of itself too of course).
Show threadbumble's (🐝) rumple (🦄)Jul 3, 2023

@gob

Ahh; I see what you mean.

Thanks a ton for the explanation!