By far my favourite feature of this release, dark mode in docs: https://nim-lang.org/docs/lib.html
Dude! I didn't even notice that. If you've ever had to look something up late at night - dark mode is a godsend.
Nim 1.2
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Re: Nim 1.2
#52I 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 feel DSL-ish ways of Nim are so much more advanced then python.
I have written UI DSLs in Nim, as well as SQL DSLs. Only LISPy languages come close to the level of DSL you can do.
Re: Nim 1.2
#53If 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…
Neat project!
Re: Nim 1.2
#54I've been doing the nim track on exercism.io (no affiliation, just a user) for the last two weeks. The mentors on the track have been fantastic. If you're looking for a "solve a problem and get some external feedback" approach to learning the language it's pretty good.
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
Re: Nim 1.2
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
choosenim is still supported :-) The idea is more like the gcc -std flag (gcc -std=gnu++11 for example). to emulate certain versions to ease upgrading.
Do you think the gcc -std flag would exist if every distribution of gcc included a command to easily download alternate versions and swap them out depending on project configuration? -std seems more like a bandaid around a difficult install/config than a feature, in my opinion. Obviously nim is free to make implement whatever options they want, but it seems to me like every second spent triaging/fixing/etc bugs about…
Depends on your organization more than tooling. Even if you have the tool, your orgs security policy may not allow using it.
You may not have an environment that allows switching compiler versions for other reasons.
Even Rust has a similar concept that allows gating of features like this. They call it "editions".
Re: Nim 1.2
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
choosenim is still supported :-) The idea is more like the gcc -std flag (gcc -std=gnu++11 for example). to emulate certain versions to ease upgrading.
Do you think the gcc -std flag would exist if every distribution of gcc included a command to easily download alternate versions and swap them out depending on project configuration? -std seems more like a bandaid around a difficult install/config than a feature, in my opinion. Obviously nim is free to make implement whatever options they want, but it seems to me like every second spent triaging/fixing/etc bugs about…
Yes, the -std flag would definitely still exist: the thing being changed by that flag is a lot of stuff in the parser, some stuff in the standard library, and some semantics bits further towards the backend, but at some point the versions converge and go through the same optimisation pipeline. A pipeline that definitely has seen improvements in more recent versions, so it's totally worth it to use a new compiler with an old language standard on old code: it might very well produce a faster executable. Just using an older compiler would also revert back to the old performance.
Additionally, a C/C++ compiler in an older standard mode would disable certain features, of course, but not completely: it's still able to give diagnistics in the vein of "this thing isn't valid with the current version setting, but it would be valid in C++17", for example. That's useful to a programmer.
Re: Nim 1.2
#57I've been doing the nim track on exercism.io (no affiliation, just a user) for the last two weeks. The mentors on the track have been fantastic. If you're looking for a "solve a problem and get some external feedback" approach to learning the language it's pretty good.
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
>it started to require me to work for Google for free
How did that work?
Re: Nim 1.2
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
>it started to require me to work for Google for free How did that work?
Recaptcha and tracking.
Re: Nim 1.2
#59I've been doing the nim track on exercism.io (no affiliation, just a user) for the last two weeks. The mentors on the track have been fantastic. If you're looking for a "solve a problem and get some external feedback" approach to learning the language it's pretty good.
Personally I stopped using exercism, when it started to require me to work for Google for free and would not let me log in, if I did not. It's not an ethical platform, unfortunately.
What do you mean by 'work for Google for free?' I don't see that being required anywhere on the site.
Re: Nim 1.2
#60Among other great additions, I like the addition of compilesettings [1], which will give programs more visibility into how they were compiled.