Re: Nim status in various OS/Distro Package Managers

2017-02-23 Thread moigagoo
Windows via [scoop](http://scoop.sh/): $ scoop install nim Current version is 0.16.0, regularly updated by me.

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2017-02-23 Thread rku
IMHO skins are cancer. Problem of Nim is that it is trying to be best-everything all at once. Result of this is over a decade of unstable language which did not reach 1.0 yet. Yes, we all have our own tastes. I dislike some stuff in nim as well. I can get used to them if language is solving my

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2017-02-23 Thread Krux02
@libman > The modules they write in Rust or whatever will not benefit Nimland. But if there's a Nim syntax variant / "skin" that they like, then they're still on our side, and their modules are a part of our world. I disagree. Rust and other programming languages are not the enemy, or

Howto: convert nim string encoding with Javascript

2017-02-23 Thread gil26
hi, I have a nim string with a value compiled into this: STRING_LITERAL(T_V45tF8B8NBcxFcjfe7lhBw_12, "\327\220\327\221\327\233=\327\222", 9); Using GDB i get the exact same string ("\327\220\327\221327\233=\327\222") when querying the variable value. My question is: how

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2017-02-23 Thread mmierzwa
Just remark. In SQL Server for instance you can design query graphically but everyone (in my experience) just write it in text. I am trying to say that it would not be easy to go to higher level of abstraction. Graphical languages are not very popular. Human is a beast which thinks rather

Re: Nim status in various OS/Distro Package Managers

2017-02-23 Thread hcorion
Windows via chocolatey: [https://chocolatey.org/packages/nim](https://chocolatey.org/packages/nim) abandoned stuck at version 0.11.2

Re: Nim status in various OS/Distro Package Managers

2017-02-23 Thread Lando
* Arch Linux: 0.15.0, orphaned

Nim status in various OS/Distro Package Managers

2017-02-23 Thread Libman
I have a suggestion for [the download page](https://nim-lang.org/download.html): a table keeping track of Nim's status with various OS / distro package managers. I'd be willing to help maintain this (to the best of my very limited ability). Imagine a non-Windows user just discovering Nim,

Re: Introduction

2017-02-23 Thread jlhouchin
Hello, Many forums have a long running thread for introductions. So I am joining this thread. Hopefully others will continue in the future. I just wanted to say Hi and introduce my self. I am just learning Nim, but I have decided to make a commitment. I have read the tutorials and bought the

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2017-02-23 Thread Libman
@scriptkiddy: > I personally do not like the idea of syntax "skins" at all. It is actually > one of the biggest issues I have with Javascript. When I'm looking at a > project written with es2015 vs TypeScript vs CoffeeScript I have to try and > imagine how it would look in regular old es5 just

Re: Nim Syntax ''Skins''

2017-02-23 Thread Libman
Maybe we should think of it this way: Java is referred to as a ["software platform"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_\(software_platform\)), which consists of the Java language (a flagship, but with other languages available), javac compiler, a huge ecosystem of libraries and tools, etc.

Re: Nim core developer wanted

2017-02-23 Thread bluenote
That's really great news! Do you already know when he will start and what will be the focus?