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Fidget – Figma based UI library for Nim, with HTML and OpenGL back ends (github.com/treeform)
24 points by giancarlostoro on Sept 29, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I've been doing a bit of surface-level research into alternative languages recently, and Nim is a really interesting one.

This is also a really cool project! I think there's a big market of people who are tired of what I like to call "JS Postmodernism," the current mess that is the JS/TS/React ecosystem

Unfortunately I don't really enjoy the tab-based syntax of languages like Python/Nim, so this is a bit of a non-starter for someone like me.

I wish more frameworks took the JSX/TSX approach of XML, or at least let me choose.

Is there a reason to choose Nim/Fidget over, say, Dart/Flutter?


As someone who spent 5 years doing Python professionally, Nim caught my eye a few times, but I finally gave it a shot, there's quite a bit of sweet little gems for it. I think it has a lot of potential. Their official forums are a custom nim based alternative to Discourse.

I hope it continues to grow over time.




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