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Re: Nim 1.2

#11

Post by nathancahill »

alberth wrote: post #10

I really with more people used NIM for web development. It really seems like the best of all worlds (e.g. perf, developer ergonomics, productivity, etc).

I've been building and deploying Nim web apps for clients over the past couple years. The language is just getting better and better and the library environment is filling out nicely too (not to subtract from the stdlib, it's very complete too). It's been a really great experience.

Also: available to hire if anyone is looking to work with Nim.

Re: Nim 1.2

#13

Post by MaxBarraclough »

sergiotapia wrote: post #2

If you would like to see some simple to parse Nim code and get a feel for what a "1 month of experience during weekends" Nim looks like, check out my project: https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim Nim is a very interesting language, with a lot of upsides. It just needs that killer framework to get the ball rolling and allow devs to solve business needs quickly. Once that's done I think Nim will grow a lot! Tiny…

It uses a rather primitive garbage-collector though, right?

Re: Nim 1.2

#14

Post by dom96 »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #13
sergiotapia wrote: post #2

If you would like to see some simple to parse Nim code and get a feel for what a "1 month of experience during weekends" Nim looks like, check out my project: https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim Nim is a very interesting language, with a lot of upsides. It just needs that killer framework to get the ball rolling and allow devs to solve business needs quickly. Once that's done I think Nim will grow a lot! Tiny…

It uses a rather primitive garbage-collector though, right?

Primitive in what sense? Nim has a soft real-time garbage collector which doesn't sound primitive to me. Actually Nim supports more than one GC including boehm so you really have a lot of choice here.

Re: Nim 1.2

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Post by sp33der89 »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #13
sergiotapia wrote: post #2

If you would like to see some simple to parse Nim code and get a feel for what a "1 month of experience during weekends" Nim looks like, check out my project: https://github.com/sergiotapia/torrentinim Nim is a very interesting language, with a lot of upsides. It just needs that killer framework to get the ball rolling and allow devs to solve business needs quickly. Once that's done I think Nim will grow a lot! Tiny…

It uses a rather primitive garbage-collector though, right?

It really doesn't! It's GC story is pretty great, because you can choose out of several GC's, one of them being good for real-time systems: https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html

Recent versions also use this fancy thing: http://www.gii.upv.es/tlsf/

Re: Nim 1.2

#16

Post by alberth »

nathancahill wrote: post #11
alberth wrote: post #10

I really with more people used NIM for web development. It really seems like the best of all worlds (e.g. perf, developer ergonomics, productivity, etc).

I've been building and deploying Nim web apps for clients over the past couple years. The language is just getting better and better and the library environment is filling out nicely too (not to subtract from the stdlib, it's very complete too). It's been a really great experience. Also: available to hire if anyone is looking to work with Nim.

Are you using Jester or another framework?

Re: Nim 1.2

#17

Post by andybak »

alberth wrote: post #10

I really with more people used NIM for web development. It really seems like the best of all worlds (e.g. perf, developer ergonomics, productivity, etc).

How would the dynamism and expressivity of something like Django port to Nim? I love the whole declarative paradigm of the Django forms and models API. Is Nim good at this kind of DSL-ish plasticity?

Re: Nim 1.2

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Post by alehander42 »

andybak wrote: post #17
alberth wrote: post #10

I really with more people used NIM for web development. It really seems like the best of all worlds (e.g. perf, developer ergonomics, productivity, etc).

How would the dynamism and expressivity of something like Django port to Nim? I love the whole declarative paradigm of the Django forms and models API. Is Nim good at this kind of DSL-ish plasticity?

i'd say so: i think many rails/django concepts are translate-able to metaprogramming in nim, not always with the same idioms, but usually there is a way to do it, and you can typecheck some things

Re: Nim 1.2

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Post by PMunch »

andybak wrote: post #17
alberth wrote: post #10

I really with more people used NIM for web development. It really seems like the best of all worlds (e.g. perf, developer ergonomics, productivity, etc).

How would the dynamism and expressivity of something like Django port to Nim? I love the whole declarative paradigm of the Django forms and models API. Is Nim good at this kind of DSL-ish plasticity?

Extremely well I'd say. Nim has a very powerful macro system, and DSLs are very common across various modules. Haven't used Django myself, but something like Jester (https://github.com/dom96/jester) or Karax (https://github.com/pragmagic/karax) is a good place to start if you want to do web development in Nim.
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