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*:::I don't think harvard.edu counts, no. If it was published by an established computer science professor then perhaps (see [[WP:USERGENERATED]]), but usually we look for things like articles in actual academic journals, or books, or news publications. — '''''[[User:Mr. Stradivarius|<span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius</span>]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:Mr. Stradivarius|♪ talk ♪]]</sup> 10:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
*: We currently pay developers in our company to use Nim for actual projects which are to be released over the course of the next year as (proprietary) software for financial analysis and consulting. We decided to use Nim for it's unique features (it even invented new forms of meta-programming). Also we found out about Nim because it is often mentioned in comparison to Rust (another fairly new language) and recognized by leading developers at Mozilla. What I write may not (yet) change the status of the article because there is no citable reference for my claim until we finish our product. I wanted to mention it anyway as I think that paying people for using a computer language is strong evidence for its relevance — '''''[[User:OderWat|oderwat]]''''' <sup>[[User talk:OderWat#top|talk]])</sup> 11:42, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
*: One can also people other than the creators using Nim by questions tagged in Stack Overflow ([http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nim here] and [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nimrod here]). Not a lot, many people ask questions on the [http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/ IRC channel]. Also, Nim is featured at [http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/ learnxinyminutes.com], kinda a secondary source. [[User:Caroliano|Caroliano]] ([[User talk:Caroliano|talk]]) 15:20, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
*'''Keep''' The company where I work, http://www.snapdisco.com, has recently switched to Nim for our internal software development. (We develop software for [[image processing]] and [[computer vision]].) We initially developed our software in [[Python]], which is webservice-friendly and has [[NumPy]] and [[SciPy]] for numerical computing, but we switched to Nim for its unique combination of coding expressiveness and runtime performance. Because Nim compiles to C, we can integrate our Nim code into our Python code as Python extension modules. We are not the language creators, but our software is proprietary. How can we prove that we are using Nim? (Disclaimers: 1. This Wikipedia account, from which I'm commenting, was created for the purpose of commenting on this AfD. 2. I have never edited/contributed to the Wikipedia page for Nim, so I have no vested interest there. 3. I have never committed any code to the Nim language, so I am not a "creator". 4. My company ''does'' use the Nim programming language. 5. I am an active member of the Nim user community.) — [[User:Jboyme|jboyme]] ([[User talk:Jboyme#top|talk]]) 14:29, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
*: Also, here's another independent, published source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2606823/application-development/146094-Ten-useful-programming-languages-you-might-not-know-about.html#slide9 In this article from April 17, 2014, Nim(rod) is described as a language "on the rise" by an independent reporter, along with [[Clojure]], [[Julia (programming language)]], [[OCaml]] (whoops, that's hardly a new language...) and [[Racket (programming language)]] (whoops, also not so new). But the section on Nim (slide 9) is clearly significant as required by [[WP:GNG]] ("more than a trivial mention but it need not be the main topic of the source material") and the article is clearly an independent secondary source. — [[User:Jboyme|jboyme]] ([[User talk:Jboyme#top|talk]]) 15:23, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
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