Nim

The problem When we write our programs or libraries, usually we ship to the end user a packaged binary. If a user wants to report a bug or ask for a feature, one of the most important information to have is “which version of the software are you using ?” Since as any good programmer you likely use a source code control system, you should not rely only on the numeric version, but it’s practical to include also the git commit hash of the software you are actually shipping....

The Good 😇 Today I decided to submit an openSUSE package update for the nim compiler. It went almost all well but unfortunately I faced a problem: on the i586 platform it fails to build. ...

On this February I decided to participate with a project to the SUSE Hackweek. ...

Inspired by a tweet from a fellow developer, I decided to take a look at Karax, a nifty framework for developing single page applications in Nim. After following the basic tutorials and examples, I searched for something more complex and found very sparse documentation, so I’ll write my findings here. As usual, the complete source code is on my github repo, where you can find also a working live demo....