Re: What are you writing using nim? :)

2017-08-31 Thread Udiknedormin
> Last time I checked Python's implementation, Python's slices also do copy, > but it's not a problem because people believe they don't copy and beliefs > tend to win over facts. They do copy, as far as I know, but I'd not be so sure about make-it-true power. For some time I was sure slicing

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

2017-08-31 Thread jzakiya
The problem with installing seems to have to do with executables not in correct bins. I can go through the install process off the website, and compile the executables in the **nim-0.17.0** directory, created by untarring the tarball. Notes about installation from source

Re: A talk on HPC

2017-08-31 Thread Udiknedormin
Well, all of the ones mentioned in the pdf, that's for sure. I also noticed you use some nice metaprogramming utilities, e.x. the ones from metaUtils.nim file. I didn't read all of your code so I can't really know what functionalities are separable.

Re: Been away for 9 months. What changed? Need some help to get back on track.

2017-08-31 Thread cumulonimbus
Most programming today is incredibly bureaucratic. Nim makes programming fun again and does away with a lot of the beaurucracy, the way Python and Lua do; But unlike Python, you don't have to give up static typing, fast runtime, ease of distribution. For now, compared to Python, you give up

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

2017-08-31 Thread Araq
Can we get a bug report for (6)?

Re: Nim newbie request/challenge

2017-08-31 Thread jzakiya
I've been translating various versions of the SSoZ I did in C++ in 2014 to Nim. Here are a few of my observations as a newbie. 1) Nim is much less noisy to write code in, with much less syntactical requirements to worry about (curly braces for if|for statements, etc). 2) Once I figured it out,

Re: Bug with generic methods?

2017-08-31 Thread Lando
> These are two models, inheritance and type classes, which are different > answers to the same problem. I can see no good reason to provide both in the > same language.. I see one difference: with concepts the type match is an implicit one, the person creating the matching concrete type

Re: meta programming a nice SIMD library

2017-08-31 Thread ephja
Here's a SIMD library [https://github.com/bsegovia/x86_simd.nim](https://github.com/bsegovia/x86_simd.nim)

Re: Been away for 9 months. What changed? Need some help to get back on track.

2017-08-31 Thread mashingan
Leaving aside the discussion about fav lang, One of great additions is this PR, [Fixed “RFC: improving JavaScript FFI” (#4873)](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/4873) Not to underestimate other stdlibs, improving JavaScript FFI should yield practical purpose, unrelated to whether people

Re: Editor profiles fo Nim

2017-08-31 Thread zolern
Notepad++ from version 7.5 has embedded support for .nim files (syntax highlighting and code folding). NB: in release notes for 7.5 Nim still is called Nimrod

Re: Compile Nim on centos 5

2017-08-31 Thread cdunn2001
[https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6299](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/6299) I tried hard to get my company to upgrade the GLIBC that we use when we build for customers, but they want to wait a few months. So we really need this change, or some alternative.