This Month with Nim: October 2021

02 November 2021 The Nim Community

Turing Complete

Author: Stuffe

In this challenging puzzle game, you build a computer from scratch and program it. It is a journey through the layers of abstractions of the computer. The game begins when you are abducted by aliens who are testing your intelligence, and from here a lighthearted sci-fi plot evolves. It is available on Steam.

This game was made in Godot and Nim with godot-nim.

changer

Author: Iffy

I love projects that keep an accurate changelog. But most people (me included) don’t like maintaining a changelog or fixing conflicts in the changelog. With changer you can add a conflict-free, easy-to-maintain changelog to your project!

Initial setup:

nimble install changer mkdir myproject && cd myproject changer init

Any time you want to add a new changelog entry run changer add and follow the two prompts:

$ changer add Change type: [F]ix [N]ew feature [B]reaking change [O]ther (default) Describe change (this will show up in the changelog): This project has a changelog now! changes/new-This-project-has-20211005-132645.md

When you’re ready to release a new version run changer bump to combine all pending changes into the CHANGELOG.md file.

$ cat CHANGELOG.md # v0.1.0 - 2021-10-05 - **NEW:** This project has a changelog now! - **FIX:** Fixed a broken thing

Changer can also convert issue numbers into links (or do other simple substitutions), automatically change the version in your .nimble file or even a package.json file. Happy coding!

OOlib

Authors: Neo

OOlib is a nimble package for object oriented programming in Nim. Example:

import strformat import oolib # add `pub` prefix to export class class pub Person: var name*: string age* = 0 # auto insert `self` as first argument proc `$`*: string = fmt"<Person> name: {self.name}" proc happyBirthday* = inc self.age # auto define constructor let p1 = newPerson("Tony") let p2 = newPerson("Steve", 100)

It has the following features:

  • Member variables with default values
  • Class data constants
  • Definition of proc, method, func, etc… (the only exception being macro)
  • Auto inserting self as first argument
  • Auto definition of constructor (high performance!)
  • Assistance with constructor definition
  • pub modifier instead of *
  • Inheritance with of modifier
  • Creating distinct type with distinct modifier
  • {.final.} by default
  • {.open.} to allow inheritance
  • super keyword for method
  • Alias class

More features are planned:

  • Pick like TypeScript’s Pick
  • let member variables
  • struct
  • protocol like interface

LibVF.IO

Author: Arthur Rasmusson

LibVF.IO is commodity GPU multiplexing driven by YAML & VFIO. We wrote an article about it here.

LibVF.IO is made in Nim. :)

Metaprogramming in Nim: Introduction

Author: Kiloneie

In this video I show and teach Nim’s metaprogramming features and capabilities. Each of its features are explained and demonstrated in a beginner-friendly manner.

Nimscripter 1.0.0 - The Rewrittening

Author: Jason Beetham

Over the past few months I have slowly been chipping at a Nimscripter rewrite and got it to a usable state in October! No longer does it rely on silly string serialization or other annoying things, you can now easily expose code to a VM and call it or expose VM code to the compiled code and call it. The following is a simple example:

import nimscripter addCallable(someNSModule): proc doThing(a: int): int var someNum = 10 proc doOtherThing: bool = true exportTo(someNsModule, someNum, doOtherThing) const script = """ proc doThing*(a: int): int = if doOtherThing(): someNum * a else: 0 """ addins = implNimScriptModule(someNsModule) let intr = loadScript(NimScriptFile(script), addins) assert intr.invoke(doThing, 2, returnType = int) == 2 * someNum someNum = 30 assert intr.invoke(doThing, 4, returnType = int) == 4 * someNum

What’s that I hear, “Oh it’d be cool if it worked with emscripten”?! Well it does!

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