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10405 :: Networking with Nim

[2023-08-14T06:39:48+02:00]

RedDirt (orginal) [2023-08-14T06:39:48+02:00] view original

I would assume that with Nim being a systems language it can open SSH connections. However, I cannot find any info on how to do so. I'd like to start off with a simple task and just log into a network router/switch and run some simple commands or pull the configuration, etc.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Any good Github's or other resources I can look at to see how things are done?

Araq (orginal) [2023-08-14T06:51:05+02:00] view original

"systems programming language" does not mean "can do task X that I happen to need right now", it means that the mapping of data structures to machine words and bits is done in a straight-forward way without unnecessary indirections.

blackmius (orginal) [2023-08-14T06:53:02+02:00] view original

googled for you https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/7678

RedDirt (orginal) [2023-08-14T08:58:50+02:00] view original

Well, that's not what I intended nor meant to imply. I simply meant my assumption was that it would have some capability/library, etc. to establish SSH connections but could not find any information that was really supporting that.

RedDirt (orginal) [2023-08-14T08:59:31+02:00] view original

Thank you for that. I will take a look at that.

termer (orginal) [2023-08-14T19:17:17+02:00] view original

I don't know if you're familiar with the SSH protocol itself, but SSH uses TCP. With this fact in mind, Nim can easily be proven to be able to use SSH because it can open TCP connection and read and write to sockets. That's not unique to a systems programming language though, and in fact any language that can use TCP sockets can, including scripting languages like Python and Node.js.