Re: Alias for proc names -- any progress?

2019-07-25 Thread timothee
> Will you alias work for the result variable too? Would be great -- I had > often procs like it works, I just added a test case for that see

Re: Nerve: RPC framework for Nim

2019-07-25 Thread nepeckman
I'm bumping this thread with the 0.2.0 release of Nerve. I put in some time to improve the abstractions and capabilities of the framework. A quick summery: * Rename rpc macro to service * Native target clients * Constructors for clients and servers * Different client drivers * Server

Re: nimble is not installing nimongo

2019-07-25 Thread dom96
You might have better luck removing Nim and installing it using choosenim: [https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#unix](https://github.com/dom96/choosenim#unix)

Re: Nim standard library on embedded platforms

2019-07-25 Thread dom96
In this case I think a PR to get this done is fine, it shouldn't require much changes. It'll be easier to discuss in the PR and be more efficient time-wise.

Re: Nim vs V language

2019-07-25 Thread mratsim
The topic has been drifiting away from technical merits, design, ergonomics or even marketing strategy. I think it's time to let it rest.

Re: Nim vs V language

2019-07-25 Thread Neil_H
I did use assembler on the commodore 64 a long time ago producing 6502 machine code, but for now ill stick with Nim but maybe switch to Pascal (I tried Python, Perl, Rust, Fortran, D Language) if Nim cannot do what I need. Thank you for your input :-)

Re: nimble is not installing nimongo

2019-07-25 Thread mitai
I also had problems with manjaro package. I prefer now to install from github, it works better

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
大佬是中国人吗?有没有在Nim开发集中营的qq群里?

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
很喜欢React中文社区,当时就是靠着它和每天中午吃饭的时间,花了俩礼拜入门了React。 然后我已经在尝试使用NimForum建论坛了,但是我水平太菜了。。玩不明白。。

Re: nimble is not installing nimongo

2019-07-25 Thread marihanz
I just installed it through manjaro's package manager: pamac-manager

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
> and my feeling is that Chinese people with a scientific background are very > good in English. Sure, the more advanced the education, the more so it is. But we don't want only the experts can use Nim ,do we? I have heard a saying from Lei Jun who is the ceo of Xiaomi co. : Let more people

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
> Some will go the extra mile just because of Go/Rust and for some others they > will always rely on Chinese mirrors. Yes,it is right. I won't to talk about the GFW, but we cannot got lots of resource exactly. And i'm very wonder why the Nimble can be used so perfect . If I don't use the

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread jiyinyiyong
> They're not good at store infomations. For examples: a green hand comes and > asked a question about why he cannot install the Nim v0.20.2,some men told > him warmly. And another new man comes to asked the same questions, the others > told him again. And it will may be happended again and

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
> This shouldn't depend on the core team. People in the FLOSS communities > should be more proactive - don't wait for "The Center" to give orders. I'm agreed to you very much, I also think open source community need more people to do something spontaneously. > (Sad that IRC is no longer the

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread jiyinyiyong
Based on experience of Chinese React community, there are several things we can do: * send Chinese blog posts on Nim to sites like SegmentFault, Zhihu, Juejin, as well as Weibo to gain attractions. * get a Chinese Nim WeChat group for communications, about news and problem solving. *

Re: Alias for proc names -- any progress?

2019-07-25 Thread Stefan_Salewski
Will you alias work for the result variable too? Would be great -- I had often procs like [https://github.com/StefanSalewski/cdt/blob/master/src/cdt/dt.nim#L92](https://github.com/StefanSalewski/cdt/blob/master/src/cdt/dt.nim#L92) where the symbol result is used really often. And the

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
Thanks for your introduction! I will try to contact them straight away. I have been found a Tencent QQ Group talk about Nim,but I don't think instant messenger can instead of a forum and a home page. They're not good at store infomations. For examples: a green hand comes and asked a question

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
I don't know if it's necessary for someone to hiring a chinese speaker for community management and engagement . As I know , some companies in China is already beginning try to use Nim to build their Projects and systems . But Nim has not been popularized and promoted .More chinese perfer to

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
感谢,我nim并没有学的太好,但是我很喜欢它,所以就想对社区做点贡献,如果您那已经在用了可以一起交流~

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread ch4o5
Thanks for first reply ~ I will let the forum and HomePage run first. PS: Exactly, the translators are usually not useful enough .

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread zulu
> This shouldn't depend on the core team. People in the FLOSS communities > should be more proactive - don't wait for "The Center" to give orders. It > would be awesome if any "special interest group" sponsored special Nim > communities and projects, be it on the basis of spoken language,

Re: FFI: help converting macro into template

2019-07-25 Thread hugogranstrom
Are comp a ModelInstance or is it a pointer to a ModelInstance? In C the "->" operator takes a pointer to a struct and the field we want and then dereferences it. The equivalent Nim code in that case is: template r(vr: untyped): untyped = comp[].r[vr] Run And if you

Re: Alias for proc names -- any progress?

2019-07-25 Thread sschwarzer
As I understand it, this is still a pull request that hasn't been merged. I think having aliases would be great, but I also see the potential conflict with already defined operators that is mentioned in the comments of the PR.

Re: How to Maintain a Nim Chinese Community

2019-07-25 Thread Stefan_Salewski
Maybe Chinese is indeed special, but generally splitting and fragmenting can be very bad. For example German wikipedia -- english content is in most cases much better and easier to understand than german content. For computer programming -- one of the few good german books I read was from N.

Re: Nim vs V language

2019-07-25 Thread Stefan_Salewski
> what language next...cos we have... If you think that we do not need new computer languages and you do not appreciate the hard work of languages developers, then you are free to use binary codes, or maybe assembler, cobol or fortran.