fabiensanglard - thanks for all the wonderful posts about.. everything! While I started reading your blog when it was more focused on old games and C development, I still check it from time to time. I'm always blown away by the level of details you manage to dig up and present - no matter the subject.
From what I've seen it _seems_ the language's creator is not interested in corporate sponsorship. It's been some time since I was interested in Nim, so I don't have any direct references to this claim. A web search would probably provide several examples. It was one of the main reasons why I decided to focus on other languages.
I feel the same way - as I suspect a lot of people here do. Nim posts are always upvoted and usually people say nice things about the language in the comments.. but there are few who claim to actually -use- the language for more than a small private project, if even that.
Thanks for all the work done over the years! I've donated to the project many times and it always feels good to support something I enjoy using every day.
> ...but it does look like Mozilla's product management has maintained its laser-like aim at its own feet.
Sadly, this feels very true. I used to donate money to Firefox back in the day, but since Mozilla seems to focus on anything but making Firefox a good -browser- - those days feel very distant.
I think Nim has a good homepage, with some bullet points explaining what the language is all about coupled with several code examples. I'm not saying Nim is better, but I visited the page the other day and thought it was neat.
That's the piece of information I miss in a lot of those stories. What happened X years later? We all love reading about strange projects, but it's not until someone sits down and writes a blog post about some old, custom system that you get the important insights (X was good, Y didn't work because reasons and nobody ever understood Z).
> Composer is the de facto package manager for PHP. I’ve never seen anyone try to compete with it.
According to common PHP culture, there's no need - since it's already good enough. Instead of re-inventing something you can just move on and get your own sh*t done. :)
I love the format! Short intro texts and self-explanatory code examples that I can copy/paste to fiddle with is, at least for me, a great way to actually understand things (compared to the "wall of text"-books that I never manage to read properly).
> Scrum has outmarketed "Agile", and swallowed it up wholesale. Agile was about putting people before process, Scrum is all process, no-wonder the people feel downtrodden.
This.
I understand that some managers want graphs, points, velocity, etc. Those things makes it easy to point at something and tell the team to improve. A good (imo) manager on the other hand, would just ask the team how the sprint went and what problems needs solving.