Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20) • Hacker News Board

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by pietroppeter » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 11:52 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #8

pietroppeter wrote: post #4

personal highlight I looked forward to: - Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool) - Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one) - Treeform talking about Nim and AI (always very clean and inspiring presentations) - Capocasa's testimony about building a (economic) coding agent in Nim - Gianmarco talking about Nim for embedded - Peter telling the st…

Did Nim 3 go all-in on compile time memory management?

AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format).

The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is possible there are still improvements)

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by andrewl-hn » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 11:53 AM UTC

kombine wrote: post #5

It's a bit sad, but do most even care about elegant and efficient code these days in the age of coding agents?

A lot of it depends on what kind of company / industry you work in. For example, in Rust space there's big divide between LLM-heavy users and light/no-LLM users. Main rust repositories: the language, standard library, formatter, linter, LSP - all forbid LLM-generated code, and lots of third-party libraries, especially low-level and security related, follow suit. However, application code written in Rust is often LLM generated. So, if you work with Rust and you contribute to core Rust projects you have to write a large portion of the code yourself.

But when I talk to my friends who work with TypeScript it seems like they all moved to LLM-generated coding full-time.

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by cb321 » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC

For those new to the topic and less patient than "full conference" levels of attention, it doesn't cover things like UFCS/command-call, user-defined operators, or many other details, but for its incredibly short run-time, this video might give you a tiny taste of the flavor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHyOHQ_GkNo

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by graemep » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

DeathArrow wrote: post #3

It's nice seeing Nim has some activity.

It looks like an interesting language but hard to learn and not a huge ecosystem.

I refuse to consider it until they change the name back :)

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by digdugdirk » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

theSherwood wrote: post #6

FYI, there appear to be several typos where occurrences of "h" seem to have been replaced with "d", such as in "tde".

It took me way too long to realize that "Nim for tde" wasn't referring to some obscure system...

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by xigoi » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

kombine wrote: post #5

It's a bit sad, but do most even care about elegant and efficient code these days in the age of coding agents?

The Nim compiler is now also slopcoded.

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by steveklabnik » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 4:43 PM UTC

andrewl-hn wrote: post #12

kombine wrote: post #5

It's a bit sad, but do most even care about elegant and efficient code these days in the age of coding agents?

A lot of it depends on what kind of company / industry you work in. For example, in Rust space there's big divide between LLM-heavy users and light/no-LLM users. Main rust repositories: the language, standard library, formatter, linter, LSP - all forbid LLM-generated code, and lots of third-party libraries, especially low-level and security related, follow suit. However, application code written in Rust is often LLM…

Last I saw, the LLM policy for the Rust project was under discussion, and it did not ban all LLM related code.

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by vips7L » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 5:05 PM UTC

kombine wrote: post #5

It's a bit sad, but do most even care about elegant and efficient code these days in the age of coding agents?

My coworkers never cared about this even before the age of slop.

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by moigagoo » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 7:22 PM UTC

pietroppeter wrote: post #4

personal highlight I looked forward to: - Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool) - Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one) - Treeform talking about Nim and AI (always very clean and inspiring presentations) - Capocasa's testimony about building a (economic) coding agent in Nim - Gianmarco talking about Nim for embedded - Peter telling the st…

My love letter video turned out a bit chaotic, I apologize upfront.

But the core points I make there I can get behind any day of a week. I do think Nim is the best language out there and I'm tired of pretending it isn't (insert the DeNiro-Phoenix-Joker meme here :-)

Re: Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

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Post by moigagoo » Thu, Jun 18, 2026, 7:45 PM UTC

xigoi wrote: post #16

kombine wrote: post #5

It's a bit sad, but do most even care about elegant and efficient code these days in the age of coding agents?

The Nim compiler is now also slopcoded.

No it's not. Araq does use LLM to generate code in Nimony but his approach involves very strict control over the produced code, it's nothing like Bun's Zig to Rust endeavor where they just asked it to dk the migration and it produced a million lines of incomprehensible code. Calling it slopcoding is a misnomer.