Nim 1.2

#1

Post by narimiran » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

Nim 1.2
nim-lang.org

Re: Nim 1.2

#2

Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:34 PM UTC

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 binaries, static binaries, fast, low memory usage, macros, compiles to C.

Re: Nim 1.2

#3

Post by totalperspectiv » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

Very excited to see gc:arc make it into stable.

Re: Nim 1.2

#4

Post by sergiotapia » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

totalperspectiv wrote: post #3

Very excited to see gc:arc make it into stable.

For the layman Nim dev, would you say "always use gc:arc" is a safe bet?

Re: Nim 1.2

#5

Post by dom96 » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #4

totalperspectiv wrote: post #3

Very excited to see gc:arc make it into stable.

For the layman Nim dev, would you say "always use gc:arc" is a safe bet?

Definitely not. --gc:arc is still experimental.

Re: Nim 1.2

#6

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:41 PM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #4

totalperspectiv wrote: post #3

Very excited to see gc:arc make it into stable.

For the layman Nim dev, would you say "always use gc:arc" is a safe bet?

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Re: Nim 1.2

#7

Post by nepeckman » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

The collect macro is awesome, and way more idiomatic Nim than list comprehensions. Nim continues to hit the sweet spot between performance and developer ergonomics.

Re: Nim 1.2

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Post by icedchai » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

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…

I'm going to check it out this weekend... I'm very intrigued by what I see.

Re: Nim 1.2

#9

Post by predators372 » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:52 PM UTC

Oooo, wow collect looks so much cleaner. I can't wait to get home and play with it!

Re: Nim 1.2

#10

Post by alberth » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 4:55 PM UTC

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).