Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

Nim is very exciting to me. For a long time I've wanted to develop a viable HDL as an internal DSL in a modern imperative compiled language. Until I found Nim I couldn't find anything beyond C++ that would work (Julia might actually, I haven't tried yet), but Nim is just absolutely perfect. The custom operators, static params (a weak form of dependent typing), and the macros in particular makes Nim a perfect match. It also helps that the compiler is itself written in Nim and pretty easy to work with. It's exciting when a language allows you to solve a whole new problem that was just not feasible before.

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by gfasdgsfd » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 11:48 AM UTC

def- wrote: post #3

The release is happening today, so I posted a bit early. Some parts, like the binaries, are not online yet. There are tutorials for newcomers: http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html https://nim-by-example.github.io/ Edit: Fixed tutorial link

I'd like to clarify that http://nimbuild.nim-lang.org/tut1.html is for the devel branch. You probably want to use http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html if you're going to use the newly released version.

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by irishcoffee » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 12:02 PM UTC

Koziolek wrote: post #2

LOL... net-filters in my job mark this site as porn...

I don't know why you got downvoted, same thing happened to me.

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by commentzorro » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 12:12 PM UTC

def- wrote: post #3

The release is happening today, so I posted a bit early. Some parts, like the binaries, are not online yet. There are tutorials for newcomers: http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html https://nim-by-example.github.io/ Edit: Fixed tutorial link

First, congratulations on the new version. Been playing since 0.9.2 and I hope to try this latest version too.

But, please make a zipped portable version available for Windows. You don't have to include a binary version of Nim (although that would be nice) but do put the required MinGW pieces off a subdirectory under Nim as was done with earlier releases. This allows unzipping to a thumb drive, xcopy installs, and using Nim anywhere without having to permanently install on specific systems. Also, it makes things really easy for a quick demo when showing someone else Nim on their machine.

(FWIW: The sad state of Windows is that almost every installer out there, MinGW included, means crapping in your system to some extent and never knowing what went on nor being able to removed all traces of what was installed. With each installed application you have to make a conscious decision whether it's worth the unpredictable OS pollution to install the application on a particular machine ... because you know with each install that your headed to that inevitable last one where you have to wipe the entire OS and start over.)

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by gfasdgsfd » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 12:27 PM UTC

commentzorro wrote: post #7

def- wrote: post #3

The release is happening today, so I posted a bit early. Some parts, like the binaries, are not online yet. There are tutorials for newcomers: http://nim-lang.org/tut1.html https://nim-by-example.github.io/ Edit: Fixed tutorial link

First, congratulations on the new version. Been playing since 0.9.2 and I hope to try this latest version too. But, please make a zipped portable version available for Windows. You don't have to include a binary version of Nim (although that would be nice) but do put the required MinGW pieces off a subdirectory under Nim as was done with earlier releases. This allows unzipping to a thumb drive, xcopy installs, and us…

It looks like mingw provides a non-installer version of the binaries, although it is (unintentionally) well hidden in the web. http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%2...

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by themartorana » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 12:45 PM UTC

All the hype on HN seems to be towards Rust and Go (with Go having its share of haters), but Nim sounds particularly interesting as a side-step from Python that runs faster than both Go and Rust.

Can anyone give me some insight as to why it's not as hyped, if at all? I'm rather unfamiliar with Nim, and it's seems to have a smaller community, but it feels like it should be getting all sorts of love considering its speed of execution.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Re: Nim (formerly Nimrod) 0.10.2 released

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Post by qznc » Mon, Dec 29, 2014, 12:49 PM UTC

themartorana wrote: post #9

All the hype on HN seems to be towards Rust and Go (with Go having its share of haters), but Nim sounds particularly interesting as a side-step from Python that runs faster than both Go and Rust. Can anyone give me some insight as to why it's not as hyped, if at all? I'm rather unfamiliar with Nim, and it's seems to have a smaller community, but it feels like it should be getting all sorts of love considering its spe…

There is no technical reason why Rust should be slower than Nim, as far as I know.