Nim spotted in the wild on new Hacker News code education startup

I was pleasantly surprised to see Nim as a supported language on this site! (HN thread: )

Donation matching drive via HN

I have been a recurring donor for a long time, and ended up going open collective despite the fees. I remember asking @araq a similar question a while ago. I don't remember the exact answer. IIRC the main reason that is the top donation option is because it provides some non-profit organization

Donation matching drive via HN

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System Programming in 2k20

The OP obviously has an existing agenda, and an extreme bias. It does not read like objective critique, and the tone is over confident, to put it mildly. > Claiming that one is required to have practical experience in a technology in > order to judge it is simply a gatekeeping because if I chang

Blog post about strict funcs

This is brilliant! excellent work @Araq and @Clyyber! I have a question about the error message. Does it currently just look like the below sample? Error: 'p' can have side effects an object reachable from 'n' is potentially mutated Run Can the error message be e

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

I'm only saying the instructions need to be fixed. I am not suggesting any solution. Talking about "what not to do" may be the wrong way to fix it. The right way to fix it is probably to just make the "right way" more clear...

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

lol. I didn't mean to start a fight. I think this is an easy fix. I will try to PR something soon. Thanks Araq!

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

Ah. I see. I used "FAQ", but yes, I meant change the installation instructions. That's better. I'm sorry; I used incorrect wording.

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

> But yeah, I am not fan of documenting all the unsupported ways of installing > Nim because that's impossible. Why would Cygwin be supported? We also don't > support DJGPP on DOSBox. Cygwin is much more commonly used on Windows than either of those (by a large margin.) Your approach is too ri

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

@araq, also, You like to talk about empirical evidence. 3 isn't a huge number of cases, but given the size of the Nim community, it's way more statistically significant than a single isolated case. That's pretty strong evidence that the docs are broken for this case imo.

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

@Araq, it's not about stupid. it's about you being too familiar You have too look at it from the point of view of a new user. A person who goes to github to build from source is not going to necessarily go the download page on the main website. Why would they? They don't want the official r

Has anybody been able to install Nim from source (from the Git repo) using Mingw64 under Windows 10?

I had the same issue yesterday and solved it differently. I used Mingw from [mingw-builds (GCC 8.1.0)](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/installer/mingw-w64-install.exe/download) And I used the OpenSSL, PCRE and relate