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An in development statically typed systems programming language; with sustainability at its core. We, the community of users, maintain it.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-01-07 · latest 2025-10-31

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  1. Apologies for not providing a link! https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull is the hard fork I was referring to.
    comment by tinfoilhatter · 2025-10-31 · in Nim 2.2.6
  2. …Nim repository will get enough contributions or bug fixes. The stable compiler repo has a fork https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull/ . It’s unfortunate that developers have different opinions.
  3. …on their own rewrite of Nim compiler, called Nimony, that should evolve into Nim 3. Refs: fork - https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull commit 'drama' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32021299#32023998 nimony -…
    comment by archargelod · 2025-03-30 · in The Koto Programming Language
  4. …for playing well with others. Perhaps the Nimskull fork will grow into something widely useful? https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull
  5. …other side forked the language and seems to move in their own direction to create something new - https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull . That's probably for the better. I've been around Nim communtiy around a year and I haven't seen any…
    comment by archargelod · 2024-02-25 · in V Language Review (2023)
  6. …are working on a fork, for apparently similar reasons as OpenD (community-led development). https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull under active development and not ready for general consumption though, from my understanding.
  7. …[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/o94gvz/what_happened_w... [3] https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull
    comment by cyber_kinetist · 2022-10-30 · in A Tour of C++ (Third edition)
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    NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim
    story by cercatrova · 2022-07-08 · 89 comments
  9. …of the more senior community members or those who have been around for a bit have migrated there: https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull Nim's community now consists of mostly new members or folks who weren't really active in it before, but…
    comment by carterza · 2022-05-06 · in Nim Version 1.6.6 Released
  10. …working on an experimental fork due to disagreements with the development of the official compiler: https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull
    comment by auxym · 2022-02-27 · in Computer Programming with Nim
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    NimSkull – A fork of Nim
    story by boongeheYOE · 2022-01-07 · 0 comments