Flutter and Nim

I took a different approach. I write my UI code in Nim, which creates JSON. The JSON is sent to Flutter where I have a rendering engine display the JSON as Flutter widgets.

zlib.h: No such file or directory error on Windows

{.passL: "-lxlsxio_read".} {.passL: "-lxlsxio_write".} Run is written in , so you need at least `xlsxio_read.dll` and `xlsxio_write.dll`. However, `{.header: "".}` is not seen, so I don't think xlsxio needs head

Flutter and Nim

Just for a bit of fun I thought I would attempt to get flutter and nim working together. Why? Because flutter is dart and it builds to js on devices and is a JIT on MacOS, Linux and Windows. The biggest problem is lack of documentation probably more on the Flutter ffi side but also on the nim s

Nim's autoformatter situation

** only works in BASH if globstar is enabled: $ shopt -s globstar Run It seems to work in fish shell by default.

Nim's autoformatter situation

[nimfmt](https://github.com/FedericoCeratto/nimfmt) is based on nimpretty and add a couple of features. The most important one is detecting is the same variable or proc appears with inconsistent style (myVar, my_var, myvar) and optionally fix it. It can be configured to prefer a specify style o

Nim's autoformatter situation

Sorry. A double negative with a great deal of textual distance. "No that..." is meant to also apply to "cannot be". Not exactly wrong, but also not very clear.

Weird issue with Nimble installation

I have: `requires "honeycomb >= 0.1.1"`. Which is the latest version. (And if I had forgotten it, it would be even weirder to get the error…)

Nim's autoformatter situation

> @moigagoo's **/** expressions cannot be saved in a file. I don't get it. Yes they can.

Weird issue with Nimble installation

Just checking for the obvious but make sure you haven't forgotten the `requires "honeycomb"` in the nimble file.

Weird issue with Nimble installation

I'm making a package which depends on the [Honeycomb](https://nimble.directory/pkg/honeycomb) library. If I don't have the library installed and I use `nimble build` or similar commands, Nimble tells me that it can't find the library in the package list. However, if I manually install it with `

zlib.h: No such file or directory error on Windows

Sorry, I send it again in code block: PS C:\Users\Andrea> nim c -r "c:\Users\Andrea\Documents\Nim\working_code\zip_import.nim" Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\Andrea\.choosenim\toolchains\nim-1.6.0\config\nim.cfg' [Conf] Hint: used config file 'C:\Users\Andrea\.choosenim\t

Discussion: Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity

@xigoi & I were discussing some ideas along those lines in navigating/selecting in indent based languages..A step beyond just "graphing paper"-esque "indent-area grids" like [Moe in Nim](https://editor.moe/) or folding. The idea is to move around said indent grid in its "natural strides". It see

Nim 1.6.4 release candidate

Found a regression:

Nim's autoformatter situation

I believe Zsh pioneered `**` back in the mid 1990s but it was a long time before you could say `**.nim` instead of `**/*.nim`. (Then it was a very short time to grow triple-`*` to chase symlinks.) It surprised me _how much_ more I liked double-`*` vs `**/*`. `**` _feels_ much more than twice as

Weird issue with ints in web (js) builds

Numbers are a bit different in JavaScript. Essentially all numbers are `float64`, but for performance reasons integers are often stored internally as `int32`. I'm guessing that Nim defines `int` as `int32` for the JavaScript target and then tries to make sure that it never triggers anything that

Weird issue with ints in web (js) builds

Basically JS itself autocasts numbers (normally 64 bit floats) to 32 bit integers when using integer bitwise operations. This is why `int` is set to be `int32` in JS, and `0xB0BF1AFF` is too big to be an `int32`. If you need 64 bit integers in JS, there are a few approaches to this, such as usi

Nim's autoformatter situation

Ah yes, so the answer to “what's wrong” is “Windows”.

Weird issue with ints in web (js) builds

OK, so, after posting the question (as usual lol), I tried to be more specific about what kind of `int` this `VColor` easy. And since we just need 32 bits (4 components x 8 bits), I went for `uint32`. I guess... problem solved. :) (I still don't understand what an `int` ends up standing for in

Flutter App Development

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Weird issue with ints in web (js) builds

I have implemented an alternative Colors library for Arturo, roughly following the path of std/colors, but with support for an alpha channel + conversion helpers (HSV/HSV <-> RGB) + palette generation functions. Everything works fine, except when I try to build the project for _js_. My **VColor