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I am using nim this week on a data file scraping project. If you can Google and write python you can just start with nim and learn as you go, very easy.

I am super bummed that there is (effectively) no debugging. I am too lazy to mess with VS code to get gdb working, it should just work already. Someday, I guess. Maybe jetbrains will save us. With real IDE support nim would sweep the nations.

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From my experience, there really is not that much need for debugging in the sense of adding breakpoints and attaching to a running process with Nim. Honestly, `debugEcho` suffices, give it a shot. I mean, you may need more debugging tools when your project gets large but since you're just starting with Nim, you can just relax and keep going.

Relax is my strategy right now but I am a bear of little brain and spent years with Matlab stopped in the debugger while I went to lunch. Peering into data at will is something I can't easily give up. Debug trace was how I spent the stressful young years of my programming life and for data intensive, rather than logic intensive transactional code, I don't prefer tracing.

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