book of nim

bow to the crown - Heather Dale

• my adventures in nim V2 (choosenim #devel)
• hopefully a useful cheatsheet for my fellow nOobs
• contributions welcomed
• v2 press release
• changelog

for fullstack appdevs & bizdevops+sec teams

a language should scale like math: the same notation describing the lowest and highest layers - Andreas

• fullstack is a first principle for us; nim redefines what that means
• many application developers are moving to/incorporating rust/go in their stack; suspend judgment and consider nim for (many, but definitely) these reasons
  • cross compile applications
  • cross platform scripts
  • robust application & script configuration
  • documentation is a first class citizen
    • with first class support for reStructured text
  • testing is a first class citizen
    • with html reports
    • and valgrind integration for memory leaks
  • first class support for postgres, mysql
    • including a generic ODBC wrapper for other dbs
  • future proof design philisophy
    • with ergonomic APIs
  • various pragmas to customize, restrict and enhance the compiler and runtime
  • community forum
  • spiderman's uncle

recommended ramp up

tutorials to get you familiar with nim

• adambard: learn x in y minutes
• flaviut: nim by example
• miran: nim basics
• status: auditor docs
• official nim tutorial
• official nim wiki
• cheatsheet: reStructured Text

indepth nim syntax and API

• this repo serves two purposes for programmers considering nim as their Nth language:
  • primary: source code you can execute while reading
    • examples covering ~ 90%% of nim
  • secondary: documentation you can read while coding
    • contextual info for the API examples with links to documentation and related references
• thus each chapter consists of docs to read and code to run:
  • basic to expressive nim
    • round 1:
      • hello world
    • round 2:
      • sugar and spices
  • 1: data types and data wrangling
    • round 1
      • collections, strings
      • containers, lists,
      • time and calendar, maths
    • round 2
      • data protocols, data wrangling,
      • cryptography
  • 2: operating system and tests
    • round 1
      • operating systems and i/o
    • round 2
      • testing with testament
  • 3: concurrency, parallelism, servers
    • round 1
      • async and threads
    • round 2
      • web and application servers
  • 4: compiler, packages, and memory management
    • round 1
      • pragmas and effects,
      • managing memory at runtime
    • round 2
      • packaging and configuring nim apps
      • compiling and garbage collectors
      • targeting runtime environments
      • four backends with unlimited targets
  • 5: filters, metaprogramming and interfacing with other languages
    • round 1
      • filters
      • templates and macros
    • round 2
      • foreign function interface
  • 6: opensource

diving into the source code

• nim
  • impure
  • nimscript
  • pure
  • standard
  • system
  • test examples
  • testament
• nimforum SPA
• nimble api
• nimtemplate repo template

how about some books?

• nim in action
• computer programming with Nim
• mastering nim
  • excerpt of code examples are available

practicing online

• nim on exercism
• nim on codewars

links

internal

• vscode code-runner cmd for both nimscript and nim files
• shell fns for nim, nimble and choosenim
• community packages

nimlang

• std library
• nim manual
• api design
• system module
• fusion docs
  • ctrl f it
• finding somethign easy to contribute to
• nimlang RFCs
• nimlang on matrix

blogs

• peter: nim blog
• official nim blog

benchmarks

• web frameworks
• techempower

nimskull

• statically typed structured nim fork