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> A year ago I wrote an article trying to round up new languages since year 2000 and what I think of them by just… glancing at them, or otherwise playing with them. I ended up sifting out the 5 most interesting in my not so humble opinion - Go, Rust, Dart and Julia. Now a year has passed and…

> I discover that I missed Nim!

> Nim was born somewhere around 2006-ish and is clearly a very serious language to consider, but is going suspiciously under the radar. Having reviewed this language more closely (and still doing so) I can safely say that for me it actually easily tops this list.

http://goran.krampe.se/2014/10/20/i-missed-nim/

I'm convinced Nim is what Python aspires to be, but it seems like putting the cart before the horse.

Does anyone know of any interesting projects using Nim?

... or the horse out of the car.

The Nim compiler itself is written in Nim: https://github.com/Araq/Nim

There is Jester, a framework for web applications: https://github.com/dom96/jester

HastyScribe looks pretty nice as well: https://h3rald.com/articles/hastyscribe/

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