Re: Future of Nim ?

2018-12-19 Thread mratsim
Swift uses reference counting like Nim though i don't think it's deferred, and I don't know if it's thread local.

Re: Future of Nim ?

2018-12-19 Thread shashlick
Doubt anyone would like to prototype with rust - picky, verbose language that demands good understanding. No gc either. Swift has no gc either but I don't know much more about it.

Re: Nim video lists

2018-12-19 Thread Libman
Can you link to specific ones that aren't duplicates of the ones on YouTube?

Re: How to parse JSON at compile time?

2018-12-19 Thread Libman
I'm glad that a solution was found for this specific `macros` case, but it's indeed disappointing that all Nim JSON libraries fail if used in static / compile time context... The `jsmn` module was somewhat promising, but failed for another reason - your mileage may vary. In case anyone finds t

Re: Future of Nim ?

2018-12-19 Thread Libman
> Hello **the Nims** ^^ BTW, did the Nim community ever decide on whether we are Nimers, Nimrods, Nimists, Nimsters, Nimblers, Nimians, Nimberts, or even Nimbertarians? Should we have a vote? ☺ (I used to be one of the original "Pythoneers" \- long before it was cool, and long before the "Pyth

Re: Advent of Code 2018 megathread

2018-12-19 Thread nickmyers217
Yeah day 15 was a struggle, but I am glad I didn't give up. I was finally able to hunt down the path finding but that was haunting me. My issue was that I was trying to be too clever and implement A* for the pathing which led to bug after bug. I took a big step back and decided to just brute for

Re: ntags – generating tags for Nim programs and modules.

2018-12-19 Thread Jehan
Yes, it still exists, at [https://bitbucket.org/nimcontrib/ntags](https://bitbucket.org/nimcontrib/ntags). It is maintained insofar as I haven't found any need to update it, other than check on and off to make sure that it works with the most current version of Nim. The main features that are m