Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-09-02 Thread Hendrik
Thanks Stefan I have bookmarked them will work thru those too. What I was hoping of doing is focusing on Python and then slowly on the side work thru Nim's book and tutorials.

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-31 Thread Stefan_Salewski
> Nim basics tutorial doesn't expect you to have some prior knowledge Yes, I have to admit that the situation for beginners has improved in the last years, so for smart people starting with Nim as their first computer language is an option. Note that we recently got one more core components for

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-31 Thread miran
> the book expects you to have some other language knowledge first [Nim basics tutorial](https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/) doesn't expect you to have some prior knowledge, and shows you the basic concepts in Nim.

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-31 Thread Hendrik
Thanks for answers. rayman22201 coincidentally it is exactly what I am doing now since I read yesterday in the NIM in action book that the book expects you to have some other language knowledge first. So I have a ton of learning material for Python and have started with it since the syntax is th

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-30 Thread rayman22201
Andrew Kelley is a smart guy. He is asking smart questions. But, like mratsim, I don't agree with him on some of his answers to those questions. That said, Andrew Kelley is talking about super advanced stuff that you should not worry about if you are a complete beginner. If you are completely n

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-30 Thread Neil_H
I tried Zig couldn't even get it to compile anything without errors popping up all over says it all

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-30 Thread juancarlospaco
"Zig is perfect software" "Manual Memory Allocation... every standard library function takes a Memory Allocator as argument" 🤔

Re: Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-30 Thread mratsim
Well he is just plain wrong. If you use only stack or ptr object (and no seq/strings/ref) there is no hidden memory allocation. For good measure you can compile with `gc:none` Guess other languages with hidden memory allocations? C++ and Rust, if you use `std::vector`/`Vector` and you append to

Came across a video talking about NIM

2019-08-29 Thread Hendrik
Hi, just a question. I came across this video by the ZIG lang dev and what was interesting is he named NIM (along with some other languages) at 11:27 saying that the memory allocation is hopeless stating that C is the only one that writes perfect software. However, NIM compiles to C so I am not