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by pietroppeter 44 days ago
personal highlight I looked forward to:

- Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool)

- Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one)

- Treeform talking about Nim and AI (always very clean and inspiring presentations)

- Capocasa's testimony about building a (economic) coding agent in Nim

- Gianmarco talking about Nim for embedded

- Peter telling the story on how he introduces Nim to his company's new hires

I am pretty sure the general quality will be good and there will be hidden pearls (last year pearl for me was the one about putting Nim on e-ink screens all over the house)

(you won't find name of authors in the conf page but you will find them in the youtube playlists)

2 comments

My love letter video turned out a bit chaotic, I apologize upfront.

But the core points I make there I can get behind any day of a week. I do think Nim is the best language out there and I'm tired of pretending it isn't (insert the DeNiro-Phoenix-Joker meme here :-)

Did Nim 3 go all-in on compile time memory management?
AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format).

The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is possible there are still improvements)