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Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by fprotthetarball »

auggierose wrote: post #10
fprotthetarball wrote: post #3

I am hoping for an eBook. I don't have a lot of space for books, but my computer or phone is always nearby.

An e-book is going to heavily (and negatively) impact the sales figures for the print book. So I wouldn't hold out for that. Looking at the price of the book, he wants to make money from it, so no e-book is probably the right strategy.

I have no problem paying the same price for an eBook as print. If there is some reason a physical product must be involved, bundle both. I'll keep the eBook and donate the physical book to a library.

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by ternaryoperator »

LastMuel wrote: post #8
ternaryoperator wrote: post #4

Looking at the excerpt on Amazon, the Acknowledgments part of the preface lists numerous people and concludes with: "This book would be as good as it is without your help." The author might want to fix that.

This appears to have been fixed in the Amazon page I just pulled up. If so, that was a quick edit.

It's still there, at least on Amazon.com. I haven't checked other Amazon sites.

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by e12e »

auggierose wrote: post #10
fprotthetarball wrote: post #3

I am hoping for an eBook. I don't have a lot of space for books, but my computer or phone is always nearby.

An e-book is going to heavily (and negatively) impact the sales figures for the print book. So I wouldn't hold out for that. Looking at the price of the book, he wants to make money from it, so no e-book is probably the right strategy.

> An e-book is going to heavily (and negatively) impact the sales figures for the print book.

Well, if the price is the same, that hardly matters? Or are you implying unpaid/illicit downloads will be worse with a legal digital version as opposed to an illicitly scanned copy?

After buying an e-reader I can't defend buying print books from an environmental standpoint - it may be a sunk cost/resources fallacy - but with all the infrastructure for digital production, distribution and reading in place - print copies are a strict waste of resources.

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by danielvaughn »

davidkunz wrote: post #9

I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!

Care to give a brief overview of what you find appealing? I've never looked into the language before.

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by pddpro »

davidkunz wrote: post #9

I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!

Even Rust?

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by brightball »

davidkunz wrote: post #9

I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!

That’s how I feel about Elixir. Everything else just feels wrong now.

I’d be curious to get your Nim highlights.

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by cultofmetatron »

brightball wrote: post #17
davidkunz wrote: post #9

I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!

That’s how I feel about Elixir. Everything else just feels wrong now. I’d be curious to get your Nim highlights.

thats exactly how I feel when it comes to web frameworks. nothing else has anything good enough to give up all the nice toys elixir gives me.

haskell's types are cool

vuetify makes me consider nuxt

but only elixir has otp, immutable data structures, intercluseter message passing, channels, good performance, ease of use and descent ecosystem out of the box.

rust is the only other new language Im looking at but for things outside web development

Re: Mastering Nim – now available on Amazon

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Post by grayrest »

brightball wrote: post #17
davidkunz wrote: post #9

I absolutely hate Nim for spoiling pretty much all other programming languages for me. I wish it gained more traction. Congratulations on your book and keep up the great work, Araq. You did an outstanding job with Nim and I wish you all the best!

That’s how I feel about Elixir. Everything else just feels wrong now. I’d be curious to get your Nim highlights.

I think Nim does DSLs particularly well and is the performant option for the Python class of scripty general purpose languages. I personally prefer more state controlled languages (Clojure, Rust) but I've considered pushing for Nim on shared/work projects. The main reason I haven't is network effects. The language niceties compared to other scripty general purpose languages aren't going to make up for the time spent writing all the libraries from scratch and I can't point to being able to control state as a motivation.
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