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Show HN: C-ocoa, Write iOS/macOS apps in any language, with a generated C API
Interesting project, though I'd rather just use Obj-C. I guess if you wanna use it in something like JavaScript or Lua it'd make sense to have C as a bindi g layer.
> https://gamepipeline.org/betray.html
Interesting, I've been using a similar project for Nim lately: https://github.com/treeform/windy
It's surprising how simple Obj-C interaction is compared to Java JNI or something. Here's the Obj-C interop for Windy:
- macdefs: https://github.com/treeform/windy/blob/master/src/windy/plat...
- How can I add graphics to my nim program?
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How to detect and even save key presses
I used https://github.com/treeform/windy in my text editor. It's a pure Nim library like SDL. For separate keypresses I used a state machine where every keypress advances the state and when it reaches an end state the action performed. Works pretty well ^
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Simple Gamepad Support
I made it because I really like pixie/boxy/windy combo, but there is no gamepad support built-in.
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Is Fidget usable for implementation of 3D rendering?
The author Fidget actually has a number of other great libraries that are part of the rendering stack. Notably, Pixie for text and shape rendering in 2D, Boxy for rendering textures to the GPU via opengl, and then Windy for an OS window context and user events, and a number of other libraries related to 3D rendering.
NimForUE
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Nim Versions 2.0.4 and 1.6.20 released
Glad to see that the windows executables are working again.
I had tried a little while ago to test things out on my windows machine after seeing the NimForUE project (https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE) and was sad to see that my computer would auto-mark any nim binaries as malware and delete them. I wasn't too invested so I just shrugged rather than looking for too many workarounds.
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Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
For people scared off by C++ and who want faster recompile times, check out the Nim bindings [0]. Check out his Twitter/X account [1] for plenty of cool things it brings to the table.
[0]: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
[1]: https://twitter.com/_jmgomez_
- Nim Lang for Unreal Engine
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Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
I started using Nim because i wanted to port some of machine learning models written in python with the idea of making them more portable. It was a lot of work as community is relatively small and a new user would end up writing a lot of code.
But Nim has a pretty solid standard library with clearly written code and an awesome community to help with problems. I generally read a lot of standard library code to expand my knowledge of language and discover common patterns which repeat themselves in a lot of real world problems.
C inter-op is really first class, and as far as i know it has one of best C++ inter-op as well, you can take a look at: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE for a real world example.
I use Nim for my work in both professional and personal capacity and also have written about some of it at https://ramanlabs.in/static/blog/index.html
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Anybody still trying to make Godot 4.X bindings?
I've switched over to Unreal and helped out with NimForUE early on. If you have any interest in Unreal, you should check it out since it's in a really good state. It does assume knowledge of Nim, Unreal, and C++ to really get the most out of it.
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Purpose of NimScript vs nim
In NimForUE, we ran into issues with nimble early on, so we resorted to using nim for the build scripts because we needed to do code generation gymnastics to work with Unreal's build system and Nim's C++ codegen. The Nim compiler has had some patches since we first worked on the build system, so maybe if we had to do things over again we could go back to NimScript.
- Nim 2.0.0 RC2
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Epic’s Verse Programming Language Reference
They would be better off just paying the guy developing NimForUE some money and making it first-party.
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The Icculus Microgrant is giving out 250 dollar grants to open source projects, please brag about your project(s) in this thread so I can see them!
NimForUE is an Unreal Engine plugin that aims to replace the verbose and tedious C++ with the concise and clean Nim language, supporting blueprints too and giving hot reloading and native speed performance. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
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The Verse Calculus: a Core Calculus for Functional Logic Programming (more details on Epic's new language)
(https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE)
What are some alternatives?
FreeCAD - This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. Issues are managed on our own bug tracker at https://www.freecadweb.org/tracker
Gwion - :musical_note: strongly-timed musical programming language
imgui - ImGui bindings for Nim via cimgui
neverengine
cpython - Alternative StdLib for Nim for Python targets, hijacks Python StdLib for Nim
bu - B)asic|But-For U)tility Code/Programs (in Nim & Often Unix/POSIX/Linux Context)
pixels - Toy support library for primitive graphics programming.
nimrodot - Nim Godot 4.x GDExtension wrapper (Proof of Concept)
pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.
axiom - A 64-bit kernel implemented in Nim
vulkan - Vulkan C bindings for Nim
vos - Vinix is an effort to write a modern, fast, and useful operating system in the V programming language