Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

The link I provided in my first post allows you to read/download it free from my Scribd site. Here it is again. [https://www.scribd.com/doc/228155369/The-Segmented-Sieve-of-Zakiya-SSoZ](https://www.scribd.com/doc/228155369/The-Segmented-Sieve-of-Zakiya-SSoZ) I've tested it many times, and there

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

Can you put the paper on a link that is not behind a paywall? I am normally pretty trained to port from different languages to different languages, but from the paper I can't do copy paste at all.

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

Thanks. I'm in the process of learning enough Nim to take on this effort. However, I would do what you were thinking, and first try a comparable direct C++ to Nim translation, just to get something to work. But it's going to be some time (with my time/learning curve constraints) to create someth

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

Honestly, this sounds like an interesting little project to bang out. However, I must admit that I am a humble Web Developer and, by extension, am not well versed in mathematics. The best I could do is translate your C code in the linked document into Nim and maybe make a few small changes. How

Re: Any method to set backend by configuration or nim code?

It would be nice to have though... I have take the liberty to open [Issue #6201](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6201) on GitHub.

Re: Nim on Android

Special thanks to `stisa` for doing the initial work in identifying where we needed to modify the standard library to get the very first `nim` build on Android. Thanks also to `TiberiumN` for helping me test run nim on 64-bit ARM.

Nim on Android

With [GitHub Pull Request #5772](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/5772) merged, proper support for the Android operating system is coming to the next version of Nim. Yes, Android is very similar to linux, but in some cases it's doing its own thing. That's why we introduced an own OS symbol

Re: What happened to term rewriting macro?

The usual TR macro problem is "ugh, not applied in this case because of sublte AST differences". The dreamed up problem by people who never use them is "ugh, the transformation introduced bugs". I'm happy to reconsider my opinion when real bugs resulting from TR macros are reported.

Re: What happened to term rewriting macro?

it's not talked about that much, since it _very_ useful but only in a few contexts. And it's also probably the best way to shoot yourself in the foot in the whole language.

Re: What can Nim learn from Crystal

I think a set of macros implementing regular old OOP (and maybe methods too ) should probably go into the standard library. This may require the ability to call macros in a few new ways though.