Re: `import foo {.private.}` to allows access to private fields (eg: package-level visibility)
I've implemented this in [https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/11865](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/11865)
Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community
It is usually happened on bussiness environment not we programmers, I believe that programmers do things just by their interested and love wherever they from the world.
Re: Erroneous values returned from Nim’s C foreign function interface.
I'm not sure but after I see in your wutilc
char buffer[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN];
char *get_from(...) {
\\
return buffer;
}
Run
I guess it's the problem with global variable; you should change the c api too
void *get_from(struct utmpx *ut, char* outaddr) {
}
Run
and call it in nim
#
var addrbuf = alloc0(INET6_ADDRSTRLEN)
getfrom(u, addrbuf)
# ...
dealloc(addrbuf)
Run
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
> Of course Python being taught in schools and universities helps its > popularity, but I don't think at all it's the only or even main reason for > the popularity. The other reason of course is around the time python was introduced the main languages being used were C, C++ and Java (not counting other scripting languages like PHP and Perl that were mainly for web work)… so its no surprise it took off, because everybody really, was just waiting for it. And to be honest I don't find Python that more readable, having a long def start to edge over to the right side of the screen because of all the indentation is certainly no more readable than the same def would be if it had braces inbetween but with all the code on the left side, and the braces on separate lines. Braces to split code never bothered me, however having to put semi-colons at the end of most lines did and certainly never added anything to the readability of C, C++, Java, PHP, Perl... etc, etc
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
> Python, I started to learn Python and found it quite easy to pick up, however > I decided that its growing way to big as a language, too many people are > changing it too much, and for me on Windows it just became another scripting > language, no better than say Perl... and yes Python may be very popular at > the moment and that's mainly because all the schools and university's etc use > it...but we all know that they just follow each other anyway, so just because > they all use it, does not mean its the best language out there. Anybody that > thinks that is a fool. I don't see Python that negatively. The language clearly has its strengths, and personally I find it much more readable compared to Perl (not just now, but already very shortly after moving from Perl to Python). By the way, my perception from using Python professionally for almost 20 years is that schools and universities introduced Python rather slowly, after it was already in wide use. Actually I had expected that Python would find its widespread use in education _much_ earlier. Of course Python being taught in schools and universities helps its popularity, but I don't think at all it's the only or even main reason for the popularity. Regarding the "best language", I think there isn't any best language, only the best compromise for a given use case. :-)
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
I've found Nim just a couple of days ago and i am totally in love with it, i am reading on it on the way to work, at work and then i practice is at home, it's so nice to have a language that is beautiful, really easy to understand just by looking at the code whilst very powerful and performant. I think i will make some tutorial videos on it once i learn it some more.
Re: Read lines from file thats in a variable
Because I have Regex already done that will only work on the whole file. And I am going to use the splitLines iterator, but the file will also be in memory at the same time, in this day an age of large amounts of ram, and since I will only be dealing with certain types of source files I don't think that will be a major problem.
Re: Read lines from file thats in a variable
Why you read it in completely in the first place when you want to operate on
lines? When you mystring.split('n') you double the amounth of memory used. For
small files this seems ok but for larger ones your programm could explode. It's
much better to use the splitLines iterator as Stefan_Salewski pointed out. This
way you only have to store the current line in memory.
Re: Erroneous values returned from Nim’s C foreign function interface.
You would think with a working C example would be a walk in the park. Still no joy. At the risk of breaking forum ettique I have a tiny who.nim that iterates over all logged in users and prints to console. The code also calls the c code that reads the IP address correctly as well as the nim version [https://send.firefox.com/download/6c74113752cf4a9b/#OBxTC24p8aKfVpC0Qg7eDA](https://send.firefox.com/download/6c74113752cf4a9b/#OBxTC24p8aKfVpC0Qg7eDA)
Re: Nim VS The World (CoffeeScript/Boo/PureBasic/C#/ES2018/Python)
I wrote bigger programs than those in MaxScript for 3D Studio Max :-) As for Pascal, well that was just an example, there are many others out there.Liberty Basic, Free Basic, Scala, Clojure, Steel Bank Common Lisp, SmallTalk, Erlang…….need I go on?
Re: Read lines from file thats in a variable
Thanks, but as stated in my first comment... I don't want to go down the route of using streams etc.
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
Thanks for your explanation.
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
I like Nim for all the reasons given here... for me personally, comparing with other languages... Python, I started to learn Python and found it quite easy to pick up, however I decided that its growing way to big as a language, too many people are changing it too much, and for me on Windows it just became another scripting language, no better than say Perl... and yes Python may be very popular at the moment and that's mainly because all the schools and university's etc use it...but we all know that they just follow each other anyway, so just because they all use it, does not mean its the best language out there. Anybody that thinks that is a fool. C programming, well ive stated before somewhere, I hate the C language, always have. why would anybody pick the * char to use as a pointer when in nearly every other language it was used for multiply... which meant when you look at C code... you see all these * and its like what a mess, what a complete and utter mess. On windows...Nim is faster than Python and easier than C... reasons enough for me to try it.
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
@mratsim's code may not trigger it, but at least in `/devel` there seems to be
a check in `semexprs.semOverloadedCallAnalyseEffects` that errors out with
`errRecursiveDependencyIteratorX` ("recursion is not supported in iterators:
'$1'"). The error message was even updated just a couple months ago. It is not
hard to trigger this erroring out with trees that are "run-time switched"
recursions vs. @mratsim's compile-time switched recursion. I for one would love
full recursion support in iterators (and so would love to be wrong, if I am).
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
This is Interesting. Thank you. So the documentation is wrong when it says: “Neither inline nor closure iterators can be recursive”. Here: [https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#iterators-and-the-for-statement-first-class-iterators](https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#iterators-and-the-for-statement-first-class-iterators) Or is there something I did not understood?
Re: What do you think about the programming language NIM?
> Note that Nim iterators correspond to Python generators… I would like, but they are less powerful. Generators can be recursive in Python while iterators cannot. And in Python it’s easy to use a generator without a _for_ loop thanks to the _next_ function. But, despite these limitations, iterators in Nim are very pleasant and easy to use, compared with the way to define them in other languages such as Julia. And, I agree with you, they are amazingly useful.
