nimib VS nimbus-eth2

Jupyter notebook is indeed very important. It mainly provides data scientists with two things: a literate programming environment (mixing text, code and outputs) and a way to hold state of data in memory (so that you can perform computation interactively).

As a different take to literate programming we have created a library and an ecosystem around it: https://github.com/pietroppeter/nimib

For holding state a Nim repl (which is on the roadmap as secondary priority after completing incremental compilation) is definitely an option.

Another option could be to create a library framework for caching (or be able to serialize and deserialize quickly) large data and objects. One way to see it, could be to build something similar to streamlit cache (streamlit indeed provides great interactivity)

As a reminder, at Nim Conf back in October 2022 Andreas presented Nim 2.0 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDi50K_Id_k&list=PLxLdEZg8DR...

Hearing again I cannot chuckle when Araq says: Nim v1 is good at everything, Nim v2 is supposed to be better at everything.

Back then it was supposed to come out in 2022 and indeed a RC1 came out in Dec. In the blogpost for RC1 you find the desciption of all new features: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2022/12/21/version-20-rc.html

This longer time is because extra care is being taken into having a smooth transitions (for example important libraries have been tested to work on nim v2, e.g. we made sure nimib was working with v2 in early Feb: https://github.com/pietroppeter/nimib/releases/tag/v0.3.6)

https://github.com/pietroppeter/nimib

Based on that and using a book theme, scinim getting started documentation is being built, e.g.:

Agreed! There's a couple of fairly large projects in Nim: https://nimbus.team/ (https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2) or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Though there's still friction points I've been happy seeing the ecosystem grow lately. The compiler has seen a lot of bug fixes lately too which helps.

Pretty big update for Nimbus out today, it's been a long time coming: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.6.0

consensus client/execution client -> ERIGON v2.45.2 and NIMBUS v23.5.1

In the same year their beacon chain client followed Bellatrix (Merge) and Capella upgrades without a hitch, which is in many ways more impressive than a messenger.

Nimbus claims to have a solution to the loss of finality problem that was caused by old attestations, by dramatically speeding up the verification of those attestations: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/4911

Seems they just released 23.5.0, to fix many of the issues we've been having: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/releases/tag/v23.5.0

https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2 69 contributors

Daily Goerli: Was getting a lot of missed attestations with nimbus and after some back and forth with tersec, we confirmed that timeouts communicating with web3signer were the culprit. A fix should be merged soon.