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Is Nim really as fast as C/C++/Rust/Zig/Odin?

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• 👤 Posted by: u/anoldredditorman
• 📅 Posted on: 6/15/2025
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for loop in the manual ... grrrrr

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• 👤 Posted by: u/tonetheman
• 📅 Posted on: 6/14/2025
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Bali 0.7.0 is out with a JIT compiler

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• 👤 Posted by: u/No_Necessary_3356
• 📅 Posted on: 6/12/2025
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nim-notcurses and nim v2

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• 💬 Comments: 8
• 👤 Posted by: u/Grouchy_Way_2881
• 📅 Posted on: 6/10/2025
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Password generation libraries?

• 👍 Upvotes: 11
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/Grouchy_Way_2881
• 📅 Posted on: 6/7/2025
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nodejs library: import fs

• 👍 Upvotes: 8
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• 👤 Posted by: u/cyuhat
• 📅 Posted on: 6/3/2025
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I'm rewriting my Python app in Nim

• 👍 Upvotes: 72
• 💬 Comments: 11
• 👤 Posted by: u/WyattBlueXYZ
• 📅 Posted on: 5/29/2025
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Best / simplest threading library ?

• 👍 Upvotes: 14
• 💬 Comments: 10
• 👤 Posted by: u/Mortui75
• 📅 Posted on: 5/29/2025
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I want to learn nim, what is the best way to do so?

• 👍 Upvotes: 26
• 💬 Comments: 16
• 👤 Posted by: u/[deleted]
• 📅 Posted on: 5/28/2025
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There is only 1 way you should wrap C libraries for Nim

• 👍 Upvotes: 29
• 💬 Comments: 13
• 👤 Posted by: u/Niminem93
• 📅 Posted on: 5/18/2025
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Roast request: I’m building cyfn, a scraping engine in Nim + C (think Metasploit for XPath)

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• 👤 Posted by: u/Grouchy_Way_2881
• 📅 Posted on: 5/18/2025
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Can you explain if this is a bug?

• 👍 Upvotes: 4
• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/kas2ean
• 📅 Posted on: 5/15/2025
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What are the ghost comments added by nims lsp?

• 👍 Upvotes: 9
• 💬 Comments: 7
• 👤 Posted by: u/MontanaAvocados
• 📅 Posted on: 5/13/2025
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Built a Java version manager and build tool in Nim

• 👍 Upvotes: 30
• 💬 Comments: 4
• 👤 Posted by: u/sublime_subtlety
• 📅 Posted on: 5/1/2025
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Nim or Ordin for python and golang devs?

• 👍 Upvotes: 26
• 💬 Comments: 25
• 👤 Posted by: u/Reasonable-Moose9882
• 📅 Posted on: 4/29/2025
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"Tree traversal": possibly doable with templates?

• 👍 Upvotes: 8
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/unquietwiki
• 📅 Posted on: 4/29/2025
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Complete CHIP-8 emulator in Nim

• 👍 Upvotes: 68
• 💬 Comments: 5
• 👤 Posted by: u/ilikedirt1
• 📅 Posted on: 4/26/2025
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Code suggestions

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• 💬 Comments: 4
• 👤 Posted by: u/Nervous_Swordfish289
• 📅 Posted on: 4/20/2025
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Up to date vim/nvim plugin?

• 👍 Upvotes: 16
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/gmelodie
• 📅 Posted on: 4/9/2025
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I wrote a tool to convert Nim source files from camel to snake case and vice versa

• 👍 Upvotes: 35
• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/ilikedirt1
• 📅 Posted on: 4/1/2025
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Successful use of WASIX with Nim?

• 👍 Upvotes: 16
• 💬 Comments: 0
• 👤 Posted by: u/opuntia_conflict
• 📅 Posted on: 3/28/2025
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~/.nimble vs ~/nimbledeps

• 👍 Upvotes: 7
• 💬 Comments: 1
• 👤 Posted by: u/jabbalaci
• 📅 Posted on: 3/28/2025
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Using Zed for Nim development

• 👍 Upvotes: 31
• 💬 Comments: 6
• 👤 Posted by: u/aryonoco
• 📅 Posted on: 3/28/2025
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Compile Nim to WASM

• 👍 Upvotes: 14
• 💬 Comments: 3
• 👤 Posted by: u/thorf_44
• 📅 Posted on: 3/25/2025
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Help: Scoping rules for functions calling other functions on generic types?

• 👍 Upvotes: 5
• 💬 Comments: 2
• 👤 Posted by: u/robot_rover
• 📅 Posted on: 3/25/2025
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