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I've enjoyed building things in Nim. I picked it up by building small CLIs, and then eventually by starting a 3D game engine project in Nim. It's the language that I wish would take off already.

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I think Nim is great for small CLIs. Some examples are over at: https://github.com/c-blake/bu . To quantify "small", using tools themselves in bu/ (and Zsh *):

    wc -l --total=never **.nim|cols 1|cstats ms q.05 q.95
    75.5 +- 5.7,22.5,175.25

So, around 1..2 pages for a 70-row terminal window, with a 5th & 95th Parzen interpolated quantiles of 22.5 and 175.25 lines.

I was considering learning Nim. Then I found out about its partial case insensitivity and ignoring of underscores in identifiers. And that was the end of my interest in Nim.

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