Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread dom96
Indeed, those high priority bugs have in fact been marked that way because they are breaking changes (in particular the issues labelled stdlib and high priority). Dealing with them is a must for v0.18.0 and thus by extension v1.0. So do help us out

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread Arrrrrrrrr
As of today, this is the most reliable source of pending tasks [https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/todo.txt](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/todo.txt): version 1.0 battle plan === - let 'doAssert' analyse the expressions and

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread KevinGolding
> Either way, financial donations definitely help. Yup, signed up on BountySource last night.

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread KevinGolding
> What if 0.9.2 was really 1.0 but no one noticed? I understand that these numbers are arbitrary and there is nothing about a v1.0 release number that suddenly magically bestows anything on the actual software itself. My question was in part prompted by comments I saw on /. in earlier articles

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread KevinGolding
> Make this number go under 1000 Thanks for pointing this out. I think it is a good place for me to start. In my past experience I have found that one of the best ways to learn a new code base is by tracking down obvious bugs wherein things crash. It gives you a specific target to aim for and

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread KevinGolding
> What do you mean under term older technologies? For the first couple of programming jobs I had I literally had physical wyse60 and vt100 terminals sitting on my desk, connected up via 9600 baud (or 19200 if I was lucky) serial lines. I have an interest in lexing and parsing and tended to

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-11 Thread Libman
That is entirely up to Araq. Everyone (including myself) has been hyping up the idea of [The Great Epic Version One Point Oh Release](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning#Version_1.0_as_a_milestone), as if that really requires some rigid standard of achievement. I am starting to

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-10 Thread 2vg
Hi Kevin Welcome Nim-land !! you can see many [Issue](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues) And... can make other wrapper not [Here](https://nim-lang.org/docs/lib.html#wrappers)

Re: What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-10 Thread cheatfate
Welcome aboard! What do you mean under term older technologies?

What can I do the help get to v1.0?

2018-01-10 Thread KevinGolding
Hi all I'm very new to nim, like '4 days ago' new. I'm a very experienced software developer, though probably specializing in 'older technologies'. Nim seems to me to be the perfect mix of efficiency and expression, and I'd like to see its adoption grow. What can I do to help get nim to a