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HookRace - a Nim blog for now Posts Feed DDNet Me 2015-01-01 The Nim programming language is exciting. While the official tutorial is great, it slowly introduces you to the language. Instead I want to quickly show what you can do with Nim that would be more difficult or impossible in other languages. I discovered Nim in my quest to find the right tools to write a game, HookRace, the successor of my current DDNet game/mod of Teeworlds. Since I'm busy with other projects for now, this blog is now officially about Nim instead, until I find time to continue developing the game. Ok, this part is not exciting yet, but I invite you to follow along with the post: for i in 0 .. 10 : echo "Hello World" [ 0 .. i ] If you want to do so, get the Nim compiler . Save this code as hello.nim , compile it with nim c hello and finally run the binary with ./hello . To immediately compil...

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HookRace - a Nim blog for now Posts Feed DDNet Me 2015-01-23 In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let's consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language? Programs written in interpreted languages like Python are difficult to distribute. Either you require Python (in a specific version even) to be installed already, or you ship it with your program. This even causes some to reconsider Python as a teaching language . How does Nim work around this problem? For starters your program gets statically linked against the Nim runtime. That means you end up with a single binary that depends solely on the standard C library, which we can take for granted on any operating system we're interested in. Let's write a small program and give this a try: echo "Hello World" If you want to follow along, get the Nim ...