The language has a lot going for it, however, its chosen scheme for identifier resolution undermines a lot of existing tooling people are used to using with other languages, which has kept a lot of people (including my self) away from seriously considering it.
In practice its identifier resolution[1] has little impact on enjoyable and successful software development with Nim, even if it takes a little getting used to. nimgrep[2] is bundled with the compiler, but you may or may not make much use of it depending on your editor and development setup.
When I first started using Nim I was a snake_case person, and I was also put off by camelCase as the preferred style. Fast-forward a few years and I got used to the camelCase and moved on, focusing on what I want to build instead of personal style preference.
The identifier case style issue almost never comes up in practice. My advice: if you really want to give Nim a chance, don't get hung up on this issue, just adopt the community convention and enjoy the language.
I have never heard any serious criticism about this feature for anyone actually trying the language.
When there was a proposal to remove it just for the sake of this kind of arguments I actually took time to think about it and I actually ended it liking it.
I used Nim in several projects in the past. The language has much to love, but the tooling is awful. If you're fine coding using JOE/Nano/Pico, then I would say: go for it, you'll surely enjoy the experience! But if you are accustomed to IDEs to do refactoring/automatic formatting/test execution/logging/etc., it's better to look somewhere else. Even basic functionalities in the VSCode extension are buggy.
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Does anyone else like Nim? I'm thinking about using it for a project.
I tried to answer that question as best as I can after having implemented a few non trivial projects in Nim.
[1] https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#lexical-analysis-ident...
[2] https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimgrep.html
The identifier case style issue almost never comes up in practice. My advice: if you really want to give Nim a chance, don't get hung up on this issue, just adopt the community convention and enjoy the language.
When there was a proposal to remove it just for the sake of this kind of arguments I actually took time to think about it and I actually ended it liking it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887218