TITiberium·Oct 18, 2017
Can you please add your company here? :)
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Companies-using-Nim
There are some companies using Nim, but they're not in this list
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Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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What it is
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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Where it is used
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What people are saying
I see Go and OCaml recommended to people fed up with Python's lack of static typing, and I just cringe. I love experimenting with programming languages, and Go seems to be…
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 15 | 1 | 14 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 21 | 3 | 18 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 26 | 3 | 23 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 3 | 11 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesIndeed there are some bugs with unicode output[1]. Just to be clear the standard way to output anything to the console is `echo` (similar to Python's `print`).
It seems that the progress on that issue has stalled. It's unfortunate but we do have limited man-power and rely on the community to help us out, this does mean that at this stage it helps if you don't mind getting your hands dirty with potential bugs.
Unless one of us are directly affected by a bug, or we see a large number of users affected by it, it's unlikely that we will focus on it. Not much we can do there sadly. I hope you can understand.
Regarding static linking I would say that it's challenging for most languages. Especially on Windows. If you pop into our IRC/Gitter channel[2] though I'm sure somebody would help you out. You can also probably get pretty far by asking C u
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sers for help.
Regarding the build system, perhaps you are referring to the fairly recent addition of NimScript? I think that has stabilised by now. But if you've got any specific questions about it then feel free to ask them.
1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/2348
2 - https://nim-lang.org/community.html
That's a pity. Let me know if you dig it up.
Next time please create an issue on GitHub[1], you don't have to worry about creating a small example either, as long as you give us all the code to compile it.
1 - https://github.com/nim-lang/nim
In D as a Better CIt extends to Nim, and macros can also receive any valid Nim token. Alternatively you can also pass a string literal and parse it in your macro.
Nim's metaprogramming support is quite extensive, possibly even more so than Rust's. If this is something that interests you then you should check it out.
As an example of what's possible: async await in Nim is implemented entirely via a macro[1], the `=>` operator for closures is also implemented as a macro[2].
1 - Example chat app client using async await: https://github.com/dom96/nim-in-action-code/blob/master/Chap...
2 - Implementation of `=>`: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/devel/lib/pure/future.n...
In How to parse text for a DSL at compile time? (C++)I've just submitted a tiny PR¹ that makes docs a bit mobile-friendlier. It turns out that the docs template already uses media queries to rebuild the layout for smaller screens, it's just that these queries are not triggered on mobile.
[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/5737
In Nim programming languageSorry about that. Have the changes which break your code been documented in the changelog? If not please report them[0], if this is a regression then it should be fixed quickly.
0 - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/new
In Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 releasedDevelopment of Nim (https://GitHub.com/nim-lang/Nim) and its tools is done openly on GitHub.
In Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub