Name: Nim in Action
ISBN: 9781638352297

Nim in Action

Summary Nim is a multi-paradigm language that offers powerful customization options with the ability to compile to everything from C to JavaScript. In Nim in Action you'll learn how Nim compares to other languages in style and performance, master its structure and syntax, and discover unique features. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Nim is a multi-paradigm programming language that offers powerful customization options with the ability to compile to everything from C to JavaScript. It can be used in any project and illustrates that you don't have to sacrifice performance for expressiveness! About the Book Nim in Action is your guide to application development in Nim. You'll learn how Nim compares to other languages in style and performance, master its structure and syntax, and discover unique features. By carefully walking through a Twitter clone and other real-world examples, you'll see just how Nim can be used every day while also learning how to tackle concurrency, package finished applications, and interface with other languages. With the best practices and rich examples in this book, you'll be able to start using Nim today. What's Inside Language features and implementation Nimble package manager Asynchronous I/O Interfacing with C and JavaScript Metaprogramming About the Reader For developers comfortable with mainstream languages like Java, Python, C++ or C#.

What Hacker News says

anta40Oct 2024

I'm a veerryy casual Nim learner, only experiment with it when not occupied with office work or another hobbies.

Eventually I know Dominik Picheta a.k.a dom96, a very notable Nim contributor:

- Nim in Action (I learnt mainly from this book)

- Tools like jester, choosenim, etc

left the community. The only I clue I have is his tweet: https://x.com/d0m96/status/1592827547582332929?lang=en. Unfortunately the link quoted in his tweet is already deleted so I'm still unsure what the context was.

Perhaps some Nim community members can give some insight?

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monetusSep 2022

Nim in Action - a language book with syntax and the like of course, useful, but also one that tries to teach concepts from first principles.

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ajusaFeb 2022

This is a really fantastic resource for learning programming with Nim. I've started recommending it to folks that are newer to programming that want to try Nim out for various reasons. The only downside is that it is written by a non-native english speaker, so some of the phrasing feels awkward at times. Of course, that's a non issue for this kind of technical material, it's very understandable and useful! You can also view the source of this material here: https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NimProgrammingBook

For folks that are more experienced and learn by doing, the two resources I would recommend are https://nim-by-example.github.io/ and https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/. The first is a solid overview of the basic language, while the second is a bunch of example projects. Other good resources if anyone is interested:

Nim in Action (book)

https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/

https://scripter.co/notes/nim

The official Nim tutorial: https://nim-lang.org/docs/tut1.html

Nim also had a devroom at FOSDEM this year! You can find it at https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/nim_programming_langu....

My favorite talks were on Polymorph (a really fast compile time ECS), Pararules (a super cool implementation of a rules engine) and Nim Metaprogramming in the real world (very useful lesser known patterns for using Nim's capabilities in a variety of projects).

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dom96Feb 2022

> Nim in Action (book)

Free chapters and some other resources available here: https://book.picheta.me/ :)

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mardiyahDec 2021

Nim in Action

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metasynSep 2021

two resources i enjoyed:

"nim in action" by dom96 https://www.manning.com/books/nim-in-action

nim days by xmonader https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/