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1058 :: Lets think about developing something in Nim , to make it popular , what should it be?

• v3ss0n (orginal) [2015-03-22T21:48:18+01:00] view original

  I am CTO of a small software team and also a Python Enthusiast for ages. I want to try nim , but also want to start a project using nim and can make nim popular. I am thinking about doing something System-Side in nim , where performace and scalability matters? What should it be?

  As Nim already beating GoLang in benchmarks , would be nice to make a powerful system project so we can make nim popular

  like Docker made Golang popular.

  Field such as Web/Datascience are already filled by Python/Ruby and Java. Any ideas?

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• def (orginal) [2015-03-22T22:26:05+01:00] view original

  I like the projects in here: https://github.com/Araq/Nim/wiki/GSoC-2015-Ideas

  But I don't think there's anything perfectly fitting for what you're looking for in there.

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• OderWat (orginal) [2015-03-23T00:28:50+01:00] view original

  Just throwing something in which I think could be interesting:

  • A Filtering & Rewriting Proxy Server (Ads blocking / Styles rewriting / URL-Filtering)
  • Implement bup in Nim
  • Create an OpenStack / Amazon S3 or "plugable" Git storage backend similiar to what is described here (I used with with swift for some time).

  Don't blame me for stuff being hard to do :)

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• novist (orginal) [2015-03-24T09:26:36+01:00] view original

  zsync http://zsync.moria.org.uk/

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• v3ss0n (orginal) [2015-03-24T20:45:09+01:00] view original

  how about doing an opensource clone of something closed sourced,system software, but big enough that maintainability and performance matters?

  zsync is already opensourced right? as it is already in C , rewriting it will make no difference. bup is more interesting because bup clone in nim can speed it up , and as bup is in python we can even copy some code lol, nim is most pythonic of non-python variants.

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• kamilchm (orginal) [2015-03-25T18:35:20+01:00] view original

  I think it's need to be something new or something that's works with leading trends like IoT, mobile, big data, devops (like Docker). I came across http://matrix.org and this thread today and I think that this fits perfectly :)

  Matrix claims to be Open Standard with Open Source Implementations done mostly in Python. There's home server reference implementation https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse that can be rewritten in Nim to show its strength over Python and Go https://github.com/KoFish/pallium. I dunno if I can find time to work on it but it could be something interesting.

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• v3ss0n (orginal) [2015-03-26T02:48:27+01:00] view original

  very interesting. Also crossroad.io , python (twisted) version of Internet of Things. Do we have websocket support in Nim?

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• def (orginal) [2015-03-26T02:58:36+01:00] view original

  Do we have websocket support in Nim?

  There seems to be a library in progress: https://github.com/onionhammer/onion-nimrod/tree/master/websockets

  Alternatively you can use websocketd of course: https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

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• v3ss0n (orginal) [2015-03-26T18:00:17+01:00] view original

  i just found websocketd. looks cool but not sure about how much control you have over it as it is not integrated in language. nim will need python tornado-like async webframework with websocket later.

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