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by treeform 10mo ago
There can be a lot of different integers, int16, int32 ... and unsigned variants. Even huge BigNum integers of any lengths.
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by treeform 10mo ago
Nim imports are great. I would hate to qualify everything. It feels so bureaucratic when going back to other languages. They never cause me issues and largely transparent. Best feature.
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by treeform 11mo ago
Thanks!
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by treeform 11mo ago
I find that python has this simplicity other languages lack. Nim has it too. It's hard to strictly define it? Its a bit syntax, a bit lists or dicts, batteries included? A bit how you run it. Maybe a culture of straightforward code - a
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by treeform 11mo ago
Thank you for working on the Nim Compiler. This is great. Another great release. The Nim Compiler continues to move forward. Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed to the development of this superior language. Nim Compiler cont
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by treeform 1y ago
I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again. Nim fixes many of the issues I had with Python. First, I can now make games with Nim because it’s super fast and easily interfaces with all of the high performance OS and graphics
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by treeform 1y ago
That's such a good quote. I can't find it anywhere, so I'll attribute it to you.
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by treeform 1y ago
Thanks! It's all Nim, all the time.
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by treeform 1y ago
I got one recently. It has a learning curve, but it’s been really fun. It’s infinitely customizable like no other keyboard. The magnetic switches feel really good. I feel like I am in a cyberpunk novel when I use it.
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by treeform 2y ago
If I were to set up a customized S&P500 (with some tweaks) and over time companies leave and/or are added to the index. Will those changes be reflected in my custom S&P500? In the months or years in the future will it buy or se
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by treeform 3y ago
Not by itself! But together with other library boxy you can: https://github.com/treeform/boxy You should use pixie to load textures, create text, rasterize vector graphic etc... and send them to boxy to be drawn every
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by treeform 3y ago
To be fair to Nim, only Python has the huge ML ecosystem of numpy, scipy, pandas, opencv, pytorch, tensorflow, keres... Doing ML/AI style work in anything but python is really hard! That said Nim does have the nimpy library that allows
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by treeform 3y ago
I would not call std/json it "terrible in performance" probably still way faster then what you get in many other languages (like python). But yes the JSON lib I wrote is faster due to avoiding branches and allocations.
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by treeform 3y ago
Reddit was hiring for Nim positions. So demand is growing. New languages have easier time being adopted at startups which grow into big players eventually.
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by treeform 3y ago
For most of us the move from GC to Orc is pretty transparent. Most libraries just work and don't require any major restructuring.
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by treeform 3y ago
We have written pixie: https://github.com/treeform/pixie . Pixie is a 2D graphics library similar to Cairo and Skia written entirely in Nim. Which I think is a big accomplishment. It even has python bindings: https:&#
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by treeform 3y ago
I wrote a post on how Reddit uses Nim: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj... More and more large companies and startups are adopting Nim. Super excited for Nim 2.0 and huge than
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by treeform 3y ago
I was hired from a "Who's hiring" post!
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by treeform 3y ago
At 13, I reinvented perspective divide: https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Vertex_Post-Processing#P... . I wanted to draw 3D things like in 3D games, but with QBasic. I knew how to draw lines and shapes in 2D, bu
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by treeform 3y ago
Style insensitivity does not really come up once you start using the language.
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by treeform 3y ago
Is Reddit big enough? https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/yvbt4h/why_i_enj...
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by treeform 3y ago
The smooth transition can't be overstated. Its such a breath of fresh air, when many platforms, libraries just drop support all the time.
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by treeform 4y ago
If are a data scientist and come from python take a look at nimpy, a great way to just import python libraries and use them! https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy Numpy, pandas, pytorch all usable in Nim. Nim is the ultima
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by treeform 4y ago
I use Nim everyday so I am based, but previously I used JS. And it felt like the JS libraries where just not good quality. It seemed NPM was full of old, broken and unmaintained libs. Some of them did trivial things. I was never happy with
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by treeform 4y ago
About antivirus on Windows, as a person who has shipped a commercial windows app that was regularly hit by anti virus. There is almost nothing you can do except wait. Windows antivirus companies mark your program as a virus when you .exe lo
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by treeform 4y ago
My vote is on Nim. Python like syntax with C++ speed. Unknown enough, but still not too new or obscure.
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Quick guide on making game assets with AI: Magical Runes and Gems [video](youtube.com)
1 points by treeform 4y ago|0 comments
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by treeform 4y ago
Looking at the summery [2] many of the things got implemented, just a quick list: * Remove backwards-compatible switches / deprecated features * Remove every memory option except orc, arc, none, go * Shrink stdlib * Comprehensive stdli
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Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate(nim-lang.org)
184 points by treeform 4y ago|118 comments
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by treeform 4y ago
AI has completely changed the way gamedevs should create game assets. Now you can generate amazing assets with a simple workflow. In this video I show how I'm generating some cool 2D space ship assets. The same workflow I show in the v

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