Nim Tutorial

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Nim Tutorial

Nim is a statically typed system programming language that is focusing on safety and performance. It’s a third generation language with features inspired from a high-level languages: Python, Ada and Lisp. It was created by a team lead by Andreas Rumpf from Germany and is now ready for production projects.

Video Lecture

If you have the bandwidth, you can watch the next video for an interview with Nim author. This film is 17 minutes long, it has no ads and is very informative for beginners. He is revealing his vision and justify the way Nim was implemented.

Andreas Rumpf

Nim features

Nim can be compiled to C, C++, and even JavaScript;
Nim has macros. It’s very useful for machine learning;
It has generics, templates, and the macros;
Nim has strong data types, verified at compilation;
It is also multi-paradigm: OOP, Functional and Imperative;
Nim has a foreign function interface (FFI);
Nim has a garbage collector,
Provides smooth async support that comes built-in;

What's wrong?

Nim has potential but is not a popular language. Is something wrong? My oppinion is that Nin has design issues that hold developers back. First of all the author do not work full time to this language. These are some other issues I have read from internet about Nim

People say the community is not active;
People say that it has many bugs;
People say there are no jobs for Nim;

I don't like!

I don't know the language yet, I study and take notes but I have found from start things that I don't like and demotivate my study. However I want to learn this language, eventual I can contribute to improve it. So this is a hobby project actually.

Not having end of block is bad idea;
Compilation to C/C++ makes no sens for a system language;
Compilation to JavaScript is unnecessary for a system language;

Learning Nim

Next tutorial will describe Nim language in details. We organize pages in logical order from basic to advanced concepts. Don't forget to take a break after reading each page. If you are first time here, ignore the index, and continue reading.

Nim Index

Nim Quiz

Next quiz does not have a time limit. You can scan the code using a mobile or tablet. If you are already on mobile device, tap the code below to start the quiz. It requires you to sign-in using your Google account. (work in progress)

Nim - Quiz

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External References

Our tutorial is introductory so there may be some information missing. For deep learning please use these external resources. We have selected only resources that have no ads and are safe to use. We use these resources ourselves to make this tutorial.

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