Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language

A small software project called Presto says it helps people build web services in the programming language Nim—a lesser-known language that made several commenters react like they’d spotted a rare animal in the wild. One person basically summed up the mood with: wow, Nim still exists, and it’s doing stuff. That alone gave the post some novelty value.

But the real action was in the replies, where the community quickly turned this from a quiet software announcement into a mini mystery. Multiple commenters asked the same blunt question: why is this being posted now? The reason for the side-eye is that the project appears sleepy, with one commenter pointing out there hasn’t been a real code update in two years. Even worse for the drama meter, the readme’s “Documentation” section is apparently just… a title and nothing else. That sparked the classic internet pile-on: is this a hidden gem, or has someone wheeled an old project back onto the stage and hoped nobody would notice?

Others tried to steer the conversation into “Nim history hour,” reminiscing about the language’s roots and its overlap with the D language crowd, while another user tossed in an alternative project, Sarcophagus, like a friend whispering, “Psst, try the newer one.” And of course there was one delightfully nerdy nitpick about why the framework didn’t copy Go’s way of handling routes. In other words: less launch party, more comment-section detective show.