D vs nim

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 08:29:11 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 13:05 -0700, Parke via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> 
> […]
>> Nim includes an install.sh script.  It worked for me.
>
> install.sh calls koch, both of these are created by running 
> build.sh.
>
> Running koch builds the executable for installation which 
> requires extra
> compilations one critical part of which does not happen. So the 
> built
> system is fine but the installable version will not build.
>
>> According to the Nim docs ( http://nim-lang.org/download.html 
>> ) "There
>> are other ways to install Nim (like using the install.sh 
>> script), but
>> these tend to cause more problems."  I am not sure what these
>> unspecified problems are.  I used Nim only briefly, so perhaps 
>> there
>> problems are lurking and I just did not encounter them.
>
> The Nim developers seem disinterested in fixing things for 
> early adopters,
> which is sad.

Neither is it a good strategy. How are they supposed to build up 
a user base (and get input), if they don't care for potential 
users, especially now that they are going on about how great the 
language is.