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There can be a lot of different integers, int16, int32 ... and unsigned variants. Even huge BigNum integers of any lengths.

Nim imports are great. I would hate to qualify everything. It feels so bureaucratic when going back to other languages. They never cause me issues and largely transparent. Best fea…

Thanks!

I find that python has this simplicity other languages lack. Nim has it too. It's hard to strictly define it? Its a bit syntax, a bit lists or dicts, batteries included? A bit how …

Thank you for working on the Nim Compiler. This is great. Another great release. The Nim Compiler continues to move forward. Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to …

I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again. Nim fixes many of the issues I had with Python. First, I can now make games with Nim because it’s super fast and easily…

That's such a good quote. I can't find it anywhere, so I'll attribute it to you.

Thanks! It's all Nim, all the time.

I got one recently. It has a learning curve, but it’s been really fun. It’s infinitely customizable like no other keyboard. The magnetic switches feel really good. I feel like I am…

If I were to set up a customized S&P500 (with some tweaks) and over time companies leave and/or are added to the index. Will those changes be reflected in my custom S&P500? In the …

Not by itself! But together with other library boxy you can: https://github.com/treeform/boxy You should use pixie to load textures, create text, rasterize vector graphic etc... an…

To be fair to Nim, only Python has the huge ML ecosystem of numpy, scipy, pandas, opencv, pytorch, tensorflow, keres... Doing ML/AI style work in anything but python is really hard…

I would not call std/json it "terrible in performance" probably still way faster then what you get in many other languages (like python). But yes the JSON lib I wrote is faster due…

Reddit was hiring for Nim positions. So demand is growing. New languages have easier time being adopted at startups which grow into big players eventually.

For most of us the move from GC to Orc is pretty transparent. Most libraries just work and don't require any major restructuring.

We have written pixie: https://github.com/treeform/pixie . Pixie is a 2D graphics library similar to Cairo and Skia written entirely in Nim. Which I think is a big accomplishment. …

I wrote a post on how Reddit uses Nim: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj... More and more large companies and startups are adopting Nim. Super excited fo…

I was hired from a "Who's hiring" post!

At 13, I reinvented perspective divide: https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Vertex_Post-Processing#P... . I wanted to draw 3D things like in 3D games, but with QBasic. I knew how t…

Style insensitivity does not really come up once you start using the language.

Is Reddit big enough? https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj...

The smooth transition can't be overstated. Its such a breath of fresh air, when many platforms, libraries just drop support all the time.

If are a data scientist and come from python take a look at nimpy, a great way to just import python libraries and use them! https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy Numpy, pandas, pytorc…

I use Nim everyday so I am based, but previously I used JS. And it felt like the JS libraries where just not good quality. It seemed NPM was full of old, broken and unmaintained li…

About antivirus on Windows, as a person who has shipped a commercial windows app that was regularly hit by anti virus. There is almost nothing you can do except wait. Windows antiv…