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1170 :: Version 0.11.0 released

• dom96 (orginal) [2015-04-30T17:37:06+02:00] view original

  We have just released version 0.11.0. Enjoy!

  http://nim-lang.org/news.html#Z2015-04-30-version-0-11-0-released

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• jboy (orginal) [2015-04-30T18:09:13+02:00] view original

  Congratulations and thank you to the Nim devs!

  I'm disproportionately pleased by some of these minor fixes & improvements:

  • "concept is now a keyword and is used instead of generic". (I've been hoping that the name generic would change, since I first encountered it. generic was way too broad a term, for a relatively narrow concept. Plus, I could just imagine confused new users thinking that user defined type classes == generics in Nim.)
  • "system.untyped and system.typed have been introduced as aliases for expr and stmt. The new names capture the semantics much better and most likely expr and stmt will be deprecated in favor of the new names."
  • "immediate templates and macros will be deprecated as these will soon be completely unnecessary, instead the typed or untyped metatypes can be used."
  • "arrow like operators are not right associative anymore and are required to end with either ->, ~> or =>, not just >. Examples of operators still considered arrow like: ->, ==>, +=>. On the other hand, the following operators are now considered regular operators again: |>, -+>, etc."
  • "Overloading by 'var T' is now finally possible:"
  • "Added ..^ and ..< templates to system so that the rather annoying space between .. < and .. ^ is not necessary anymore."

  And of course, that's an exceptionally impressive list of bugfixes.

  Question for the Nim devs: Have you given any more thought to my suggestion (with terminology-refinement update) about block vs stmt parameter-types and return-value types for template hygiene?

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• mason_mcgill (orginal) [2015-04-30T20:45:49+02:00] view original

  This is great! I continue to be impressed by how much more usable and powerful the language has become over the few months I've been using it.

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• Arrrrrrrrr (orginal) [2015-04-30T21:25:59+02:00] view original

  Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this great language.

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• kirbyfan64sos (orginal) [2015-05-01T03:13:17+02:00] view original

  Yay! I've been following Nim's development for a while now (about 1-2 years), and I've enjoyed seeing the project mature more and more. I can't wait till 1.0!

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• brianrogoff (orginal) [2015-05-01T03:51:43+02:00] view original

  Great job! This is a piece of tech that deserves much wider recognition. Hopefully this year it will be forthcoming.

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• axben (orginal) [2015-05-01T13:18:47+02:00] view original

  Great! Please keep going!

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• Libman (orginal) [2015-05-01T18:37:47+02:00] view original

  Just a reminder to help spread the word about Nim by posting / liking / sharing / discussing any related news stories on forums / "social media" (ex: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, Y Combinator, TechPro, etc).

  Bonus points for boldly mentioning it on Python or Golang forums / groups / etc. ;-)

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• jboy (orginal) [2015-05-02T09:36:21+02:00] view original

  Great work by @def! Porting a NES emulator from Go to Nim on Hacker News.

  And there was a question in the discussion about calling Nim functions from Python.

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• Araq (orginal) [2015-05-04T22:58:58+02:00] view original

  And version 0.11.2 has been released with every known regression fixed. Sorry about these.

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