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2795 :: Nim core developer wanted

• dom96 (orginal) [2017-02-13T19:28:38+01:00] view original

  Me and @Araq have been discussing what to do with the BountySource donations (thanks @flyx for pushing us).

  Since several months now we've received a fairly consistent amount of money from the bounty source campaign. Now that we are confident that this is sustainable, we'd like to spend the money on a new Nim core developer.

  The ideal candidate should fulfill the following requirements:

  • Available for 10 hours each week (this is open for debate)
  • Experience with Nim (verifiable via existing Nim contributions and/or Nimble packages)

  We will introduce you to the compiler internals, garbage collector internals and anything else that may be required to work on Nim.

  Here are some of the things you could work on:

  • Making the garbage collector multi-threaded or thread safe.
  • not nil checking
  • Pattern matching
  • Stabilising Nim in preparation for version 1.0.
  • The standard library or the Nim tools and infrastructure.

  The candidate needs to be available via Skype (or equivalent).

  If you have any questions, feel free to ask here. Otherwise apply to jobs[at]nim-lang.org :)

  Note: The deadline for applications is this Friday (17 February 2017).

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• vega (orginal) [2017-02-14T09:23:50+01:00] view original

  We will introduce you to the compiler internals, garbage collector internals and anything else that may be required to work on Nim.

  @dom96, please record these introductions in some form and publish them. It will be the great help for newbies :-)

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• dom96 (orginal) [2017-02-14T20:48:50+01:00] view original

  @vega of course, we will do our best to do just that.

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• dom96 (orginal) [2017-02-15T18:42:29+01:00] view original

  Updated the first post with the deadline.

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• Araq (orginal) [2017-02-22T23:29:48+01:00] view original

  Many thanks to everybody who applied! It was a tough decision but in the end we decided on Zahary, a former Nim developer who knows much about Nim's core and GC. Unfortunately that means we're not exactly forced to write more documentation about Nim's internals, but since this was requested by many people, I'm sure we'll come up with something anyway. :D

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• bluenote (orginal) [2017-02-23T00:42:40+01:00] view original

  That's really great news!

  Do you already know when he will start and what will be the focus?

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• dom96 (orginal) [2017-02-28T20:32:39+01:00] view original

  Do you already know when he will start and what will be the focus?

  Starting this Friday and the focus will likely be related to concepts (which zahary actually implemented originally).

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• bpr (orginal) [2017-02-28T20:54:00+01:00] view original

  Starting this Friday and the focus will likely be related to concepts (which zahary actually implemented originally).

  That is terrific news! Getting that working well will be a real feather in Nim's cap/crown.

  Does this mean that 1.0 will see non-experimental concepts? I hope so.

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• zolern (orginal) [2017-03-01T08:29:21+01:00] view original

  Greetings and respect for Zahary (BG rules!) I am sure the best with Nim is yet to come

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• andrea (orginal) [2017-03-01T09:44:11+01:00] view original

  Starting this Friday and the focus will likely be related to concepts (which zahary actually implemented originally).

  Great! :-)

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• Arrrrrrrrr (orginal) [2017-03-01T11:40:50+01:00] view original

  I'm happy with the decision, congratulations on your new team member.

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