Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread eggy
Installation is failing for me on Windows 8.1 64-bit. The installation proceeds, and then docs fetch fails with a message box with something like 'HTTP://1.4.docs.zip' or close to that. Then I click the batch file on my desktop, and it asks to browse to it. The Nim directory doesn't exist in c:

Re: Is Nim better than C?

2016-10-01 Thread leledumbo
Nim can do everything that C can do (it is designed as a system programming language, can and has been proven to program a kernel), but will warn you about safety more than any C compiler will ever do. Nim has much more advanced features, so you can do things that are either inelegant, hard or i

Flow Based Programming in Nim

2016-10-01 Thread drifter
Hi there, I've been reading up on a programming model referred to as Flow-Based Programming (FBP). [http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp](http://forum.nim-lang.org///www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp)/ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programmi

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread Atlas
Congratulations!

NimYAML 0.7.0 released

2016-10-01 Thread flyx
Since we have Nim 0.15.0 now, NimYAML 0.7.0 follows. This list is relevant for upgrading from a previous version: * The API has been split over several modules. Importing the [base package](http://forum.nim-lang.org///flyx.github.io/NimYAML/yaml.html) imports all subpackages, so this change i

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread OderWat
@Ar Just want to point out that the "box" in every module does a search over all (indexed) modules and therefor not just helpful for big modules.

Re: Is Nim better than C?

2016-10-01 Thread nimboolean
**Language X** can be used as a replacement for C language(used as a better C), where **Language X** can be anywhere from C++, Java, D, Python, Go, OCaml, Erlang, Javascript etc., depending on what you are trying to do. Being better than C at _something_ is not that difficult. Today C is chosen

Is Nim better than C?

2016-10-01 Thread Atlas
In the Nim in Action, it says that Nim can be used as a replacement of C language (used as a better C), but does that mean Nim is better and superior on C?

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread Arrrrrrrrr
Congratulations on the release. The search box is really helpful, for big modules (system for example [http://nim-lang.org/docs/system.html](http://forum.nim-lang.org///nim-lang.org/docs/system.html)) i'd like to have the index following the main content the way crystal does, which makes explor

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread yuutayamada
> the old ways still apply though nimsuggest ... Okay. Thanks Araq.

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread Araq
> Is the nim e install_tools.nims official recommended way to use nimsuggest > from now? (No more supported nimble install nimsuggest?) `install_tools` is for the `tar.xz` based release. When you build from github, the old ways still apply though nimsuggest in particular has a `compile_without_

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread Kerp
Very awesome! I will enjoy my continued learning of nimrod

Re: Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread yuutayamada
Congrats new release! I have a little question about the download page. Is the nim e install_tools.nims official recommended way to use nimsuggest from now? (No more supported nimble install nimsuggest?)

Version 0.15 released!

2016-10-01 Thread Araq
We finally pulled the plug, new release has arrived. See [http://nim-lang.org/news/2016_09_30_version_0_15_0_released.html?ref=forum](http://forum.nim-lang.org///nim-lang.org/news/2016_09_30_version_0_15_0_released.html?ref=forum) for the details.