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- As far as I know Jester is the go-to for your webservers and you could use the httpclient in the standard library.

- This is true and there are plans to improve it, if you have any feedback on what could be clearer, you can share your thoughts here: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4523

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Jester is great if you can ask the author why does it do what is does. There are lots of implicit stuff going on and I had no time to figure out why the server starts up once I create routes.

Seconded, but I had the same problem with Elixir and Plug/Phoenix. It looks like the communities of new languages with macros need some time to mature and settle on some kind of style guide for when and how to use them. In all the Lisps I know - Clojure, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, Racket - the use of (new) macros is discouraged for the most part (at least on the surface, I'm not counting using `loop` in CL or `for` in Racket). It will get much better with time, I think, but I guess there is some truth to people saying that including macros in the language can be "dangerous" :)

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