Cannot run nimble on windows

2022-09-09 Thread pointystick
It won't help you, @pp, but I can confirm I've had similar issues at work with SentinelOne and InProcessClient(32|64).dll a couple of years ago (Nim 1.2.x days). Nimble stopped working out of nowhere, as well as some Nim programs I'd written. The most obvious symptom was that "nimble -v" produce

Beware: phishing attempts on Nim users (PSA)

2022-05-25 Thread pointystick
The fake xflywind account is gone now. I reported the account a few days ago and they acknowledged the report earlier today, although it could have been any of our reports that did it. Strike one up for the good guys!

Advent of Nim 2021

2021-12-09 Thread pointystick
Here's my repo:

nim-1.4.6_x64.zip/bin/nimble.exe reports as Trojan:Win32/Zpevdo.B

2021-10-05 Thread pointystick
I was able to get Nimble in Nim 1.4.8 to stay put on my PC with the following: 1. Download the Nim zip file from the website (or just open it if it's still in your downloads folder) 2. Drag/drop nimble.exe from the zip's 'bin' folder to the existing Nim install folder's 'bin' (the file shoul

undeclared field: 'mimes' for type mimetypes.MimeDB

2021-08-24 Thread pointystick
The MimeDB ref object is declared as follows in mimetypes.nim: type MimeDB* = object mimes: StringTableRef Run The 'mimes' in the object doesn't have an export marker (an asterisk) so it's not visible to your code. There's a separate 'mimes' constant just

Youtube "Software Drag Racing" to count primes in Nim

2021-07-30 Thread pointystick
The issue where danger didn't imply release is a few further lines down (line 75) on that Git blame: it was [13335](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13335) / [13336](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/13335). Thankfully it's fixed along with nim.cfg ignoring danger/release modes so indeed

A regex-based linter for Nim in vscode

2021-07-12 Thread pointystick
It's always nice to see attempts to improve tooling, so thanks. Saem's Nim plugin is written in Nim itself so it should provide ideas if you get around to converting your own extension. I'll mention one plugin I use in VS Code since the subject came up: * [Separators](https://marketplace.vis

Fixing dependencies

2021-07-06 Thread pointystick
It sounds like the 'Organise Imports' feature that Java IDEs provide, which: * Removes unused imports * Adds missing imports where there's only one possibility * Prompts the user with choices if there are multiple possibilities for a missing import * Sorts the imports alphabetically (I th