gintro
denim
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gintro
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Why does the example gtk application not compile?
No bug, he just did not do a #head install with "nimble install gintro@#head". See https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro/issues/214
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Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages
I have done non-trivial things both in Rust and Nim. For big projects Rust seems a little more robust, but for medium and small projects Nim is an order of magnitude faster to develop for. There are still many rough edges, but it's exactly the tradeoffs I would personally pick for my one person small business making tools for artists. So far I have been using Rust and it's alright, but looking very much into Nim to see if I can replace Rust because of the high cognitive load to keep all of the Rust stuff in my head, as I don't really need safety.
Shout out to https://github.com/StefanSalewski/gintro which was super simple to build a simple GUI tool. With Rust I have no idea what to use after trying 5 different libraries.
The downside of Nim seems to be highly unpredictable performance in my experience. With Rust it's much easier to control. This might be a deal-breaker unless I can find some solution to it. Maybe it's just using it more than two weeks and learning the ropes.
denim
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My Node.js is a bit Rusty
Related: you can write a Node.js module in Nim with Denim: https://github.com/openpeeps/denim
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Nim v2.0 Released
Somewhat related, you can call Nim code from Node.js/Bun using Denim: https://github.com/openpeeps/denim. It works by creating a Node add-on.
This is great for reusing Nim code in a web app, and possibly for performance critical code.
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Node vs Flask for Scaling
Something I'm just starting for one of my projects, is to use Node on front-end and back-end (mostly for GraphQL). Then write the majority of the back-end in Nim and compile it to a Node add-on with Denim (https://github.com/openpeeps/denim). Nim can call Python with Nimpy if I ever need to call it.
What are some alternatives?
mysitemap - generating sitemap.xml for static content sites, alongwith some dynamic links support
nodejs - Alternative StdLib for Nim for NodeJS/JavaScript targets, hijacks NodeJS StdLib for Nim
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
node-webrtc - node-webrtc is a Node.js Native Addon that provides bindings to WebRTC M87
Nim - 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).
genepi - Automatic generation of N-API wrapper from a C++ library
ssostrings - Small String Optimized (SSO) string implementation
nim-webui - Use any web browser as GUI, with Nim in the backend and HTML5 in the frontend.
napi-rs - A framework for building compiled Node.js add-ons in Rust via Node-API
webgui - Web Technologies based Crossplatform GUI Framework with Dark theme
awesome-nim - A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
torrentinim - A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows.