zero-functional VS nimbus-eth2

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.

Nim's not perfect. Come on, ask me to explain the differences between the not one, not two, not three, not four, NOT FIVE, but seven (at time of writing) garbage collectors you can specify at compile time. Or how to cross-compile a static program using regexes; something I can do without thinking in Go and Rust, but here I have to think about "impureness". Or why you need a third party package for functional programming because the built-in one is inefficient. Spoiler: I can't.

Check this out: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

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.