Awesome to see 1.4 finally released, and to have a version that should hopefully build cleanly out of the box on OpenBSD and FreeBSD and mostly "just work"[1]. Next target is NetBSD[2] then DragonFly!

1. https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/14035 2. https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6610

The stage 1 compiler is written in C++, but the Stage 2 compiler will be Zig: https://github.com/ziglang/zig#stage-2-build-self-hosted-zig...

Eventually, i'll be Zig all the way down, but the language needs to get to the point where it can actually support writing a compiler for itself (and Andrew has some big plans for the way the compiler should work from what I understand).

Hopefully stage1 will remain indefinitely for bootstrapping, like LDC's ltsmaster.

Name.com have a JSON API for resellers that you must apply to use: https://www.name.com/reseller

Gandi have an XML-RPC based API too (and has some decent code examples): http://doc.rpc.gandi.net/

Have you used Name.com, perhaps?

I haven't used their API, but I have used their domain registration and SSL services in the past.

OK, thanks. Yeah, we'll look into the Name.com API if we don't get some more prompt responses from DomainBox (with whose customer service we're chatting for the past two weeks to get even the most basic API calls working).

Plus there's the ravenscar profile for working with hard real-time systems, making it possibly the best language for working with embedded and safety critical systems.

If only the tooling was a little better (as mentioned above), Ada would be my go-to language of choice.

What sort of tooling were you looking for? I'm happy enough with gprbuild, gdb and the command line tools; I tried GNAT GPS for a bit and loathed it on sight.

For anybody doing .NET development, RegexHero (http://regexhero.net/tester) is nice. It uses Silverlight though...