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owlkettle
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Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
This is really cool! I love the JSX-like approach to UI and it's a shame it's not so common on desktop. https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle is the only thing I find comparable.
- Owlkettle – declarative GUI framework for Nim
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Nim v2.0 Released
Ones that have not been mentioned so far:
nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm
npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg
futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark
nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable
ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel
cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps
chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos
zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional
owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.
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Simple Gamepad Support
Although for a GUI (if I even made one, rather than just a fixed/hardcoded setup) I'd probably use Owlkettle(though there are some things I don't like about it, see closed issue 16).
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Forte! A new way of writing Gtk apps for GNOME.
A similar library in nim is https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
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How should one start a GUI library
There's also Owlkettle that seems a bit easier/cleaner IMO, though when I tried it I had some issues (clunky container workflow, wanting better scaling) and would prefer something similar using Qt.
- Show HN: Owlkettle – A Declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4
RFCs
- Nim Sum types, 2024 variant
- Nim Roadmap 2024 and Beyond
- Nim v2.0 Released
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Contribute to the Python-like Nim language
compiler support for object construction shorthand
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
Well, maybe not writing. Occasionally low-level C libraries - especially those that deal with keyboard input - decide to provide identifiers differing only in case... There's a WIP RFC for providing a way to deal with identifiers that need to be verbatium by surrounding them with backticks, though.
https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/477
- please comment on "It totally sounds like the n-word" as well
- Nim goto intermediate representation (NGIR)
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My Nim Development Weekly Report (3/12)
Following The Roadmap 2023 for community building , you could join us in the matrix space where we discuss how to build a community. We appreciate doable suggestions and helps, such as improving the workflow, implementing the roadmap, suggesting doable tasks, reviewing code from contributors. United we stand. We shall work together to make the community thrive.
- Nim Roadmap 2023
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My Nim Development Weekly Report (2/19)
First of all, the Nim development follows The Roadmap 2023, which specifies what features might be implemented or removed in 2023. As we can see, completing incremental compilation and recursive module dependencies might be the most important tasks to be done in 2023. You might subscribe to the roadmap and write down your expectations of Nim in 2023 there.
What are some alternatives?
Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!
nimskull - An in development statically typed systems programming language; with sustainability at its core. We, the community of users, maintain it.
ImThemes - Dear ImGui style browser and editor written in Nim
nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
NiGui - Cross-platform desktop GUI toolkit written in Nim
nim-chronos - Chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming
nimgram - An MTProto client written in Nim 👑
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).
futhark - Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim
shady - Nim to GPU shader language compiler and supporting utilities.
pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.
cligen - Nim library to infer/generate command-line-interfaces / option / argument parsing; Docs at