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indeed, as far as I know, at this moment nimic is the only package that provides systems language functionality running in CPython, while the corresponding code also compiles AOT t…

Nice language with many built in features! Do you gain much in comparison to languages, where these concepts are implemented as frameworks? Not clear, how the memory management is …

The comparison with Cython is indeed very relevant as it is currently the standard for making Python modules and it has greatly improved support for the standard Python syntax over…

Currently, Nim fits quite well with Python but there is a project to directly emit LLVM IR from Nim and MIR might be relevant there: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

Your explanation is completely correct. There are Nim implementations of BigInt, but the foremost focus of Nimic is enabling as many standard Nim features as possible. In general, …

Fully fair, I'd need to spend more time on the text. The nimic was mostly tested on the raytracer project dima-quant/ndsl_raytracer, and the performance was indeed quite near the C…

Not quite "all valid Python." Just to be clear: nimic is a strict, statically typed subset of Python. At this stage, the downside of having Nim as an intermediate step is not reall…

Yeah, indeed, I actually read about mypyc a few years ago before starting nimic. Though the goal is very similar, mypyc does not support compilation to a native executable and the …

True, nimic is a statically typed Python subset without much of its dynamism with the aim to be foremost an efficient systems language. Though in nimic, without using isinstance, t…

Good suggestion, now I recall I heard about this project before. Good to see it is in active development.

Yeh, indeed, the README was mostly generated, though the introduction is largely human-written :-) Is some specific description missing? I can provide more practical code examples …

This is great, nice concept! Good use of coding agents. Now I can make diagrams much faster.

nimic is a lightweight pure Python package that emulates Nim types and constructions, making it straightforward to transpile to Nim and compile AOT. Key principle: nimic code is va…

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I enjoyed a lot reading the book and also learned a few things there: The Pragmatic Programmer, 20th Anniversary Edition. The main guiding principle: Good design is easier to chang…

AI is very good at standard and well defined problems but much less so with complex and vague. For example, currently available models cannot write or even port a full-feature comp…