> bitsets a really nice macro? also, backend compiler optimizers are pretty good at getting perf for these kinds of ops anyway, and with fewer features in the nim compiler, there's more room in there for good compiler features - better error messages, better transformations..
> exceptions, used in the standard modules only thing worse than exceptions is `both-exceptions-and-something-else` > exceptions, rust + unwrap rust unwrap only gets used in old examples - there's `?` for production code. Nim, thanks to its great syntactic flexibility, could do even better with a macro and a block - being explicit about ignoring errors is a good thing, just like Nim does with `discard` already. > std lib, lots of alternatives * if there's an obviously better one, it'll win * if the std lib is focused, consistent and good, other libs will follow that style and fewer alternatives will emerge * if you really want to provide a canonical or blessed alternative, host it under the `nim-lang` org on github, but leave the coexisting upgrade path open > std lib, nimble means dead if they're useful, they get maintained and if they're not, nimble repo remains a place to keep them forever, unchanged and compatible with whatever other code that manages to use them successfully - combined with semantic versioning, you get the best of all worlds - stability for old stuff, promotion/accessibility for good and useful code and choice for developers > std lib, refactoring The desired refactoring doesn't happen _because_ it 's in the std lib. If it's not in the std lib, it's cheap and easy to refactor letting the old version stay forever frozen in time. > std lib, huge all of `wrappers`, most of `pure`.. why is `json`, `htmlparser`, `smtp` in there??? madness.. there's even an FTP client and two, yes **TWO** ` http` servers!.. then there's `core` and `std` that are just plain weird - what goes where? `posix`, that's a pipe dream if there ever was one - out it goes to be replaced by [https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/5698](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/5698) as an external nimble lib, easy. bring it on, all the radical stuff you'd love to change! only time will tell if the regret article will have yours and it'll be fun to look back
