shell

A Nim mini DSL to execute shell commands (by Vindaar)

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  • GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Aug 2023
    On Unix, you might try Nim (https://nim-lang.org) with https://github.com/Vindaar/shell and there are a slew of pipeline-y/Unix-y utilities over at https://github.com/c-blake/bu

    Nim is statically typed and (generally) native-compiled, but it has very low ceremony ergonomics and a powerful compile-time macro/template system as well as user-defined operators (e.g., you can use `+-` to make a constructor for uncertain values so that `9 +- 2` builds a typed object.

  • Nim Version 1.6 Released
    37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2021
    Well no language is perfect, but Nim can be used in almost every domain because of it's compilation targets(C, C++, JS) and it's fast compile times(who needs interpretation when compile times are that fast!):

    * Shell scripting, I still assume most people will just use Bash tho: https://github.com/Vindaar/shell

    * Frontend: https://github.com/karaxnim/karax or you could bind to an existing JS library.

    * Backend: For something Flask-like: https://github.com/dom96/jester or something with more defaults https://github.com/planety/prologue

    * Scientific computing: the wonderful SciNim https://github.com/SciNim

    * Blockchain: Status has some of the biggest Nim codebases currently in production https://github.com/status-im?q=&type=&language=nim&sort=

    * Gamedev: Also used in production: https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim and due to easy C and C++ interop, you get access to a lot of gamedev libraries!

    * Embedded: this is a domain I know very little about but for example https://github.com/elcritch/nesper or https://github.com/PMunch/badger for fun Nim+embedded stuff!

    Most of the disadvantages come from tooling and lack of $$$ support.

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