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4631 :: FOSDEM "Metaprogramming in Nim" talk now online

• PMunch (orginal) [2019-02-06T14:32:03+01:00] view original

  I recently held a lightning talk at FOSDEM and the video from that got uploaded today. If you didn't have the possibility to attend FOSDEM you can watch it here: https://peterme.net/meta-programming-in-nim-fosdem-talk-companion-post.html

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• Araq (orginal) [2019-02-06T15:33:46+01:00] view original

  I like it very much, your calm way of presenting Nim is very nice. Minor nitpick: "as flexible as Perl" wasn't my goal. :D

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• kaushalmodi (orginal) [2019-02-06T15:42:45+01:00] view original

  Your presentation skill is great! Your speech was calm, relaxed and clear.

  Minor comment: Can you repeat/summarize the questions from the audience next time (yes, I am looking for more of your talks :))? The actual questions are never audible in such conferences.

  Thanks!

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• PMunch (orginal) [2019-02-06T16:24:04+01:00] view original

  Thanks a lot, but damn I was sure I heard you say that at some point!

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• PMunch (orginal) [2019-02-06T16:28:09+01:00] view original

  Thanks, and yeah we talked about that before the talk but my mind completely blanked on that when I was on stage.. I chose the mixed audio source though, so it should've included just about enough of the audio to make out the questions. Maybe I should transcribe them under the video though.. And definitely hope to do get the opportunity to do more talks like this in the future (a Nim devroom next year anyone?).

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• Libman (orginal) [2019-02-07T05:22:24+01:00] view original

  From Araq's blog — Nim and Perl —

  Last month I tried to reimplement Perl in Nim and to see how well Nim's macro system holds up for unusual domain specific language requests. Personally I do not like Perl at all, but for a language designer it does "interesting" things.

  [...]

  Now what's the point in all of this? Good question. It shows a bit of my philosophy as a language designer. Yes, Nim's features can be used in interesting and confusing ways resulting in bad code, but as a language designer I don't come up with arbitrary restrictions to prevent bad things since it would make the language more complex and not help much: Real bad code comes from bad design, not from the desire to save a few keystrokes.

  (Emphasis added.)

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• lotzz (orginal) [2019-02-07T06:35:09+01:00] view original

  Nice, for the amount of time you had it was a good taste of what nim can do. Not really how to do it but it should get people interested in that

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• PMunch (orginal) [2019-02-18T09:43:36+01:00] view original

  Yeah that was the goal. With only 15 minutes there's only so much you can do, but I hope I managed to pique the interest of someone in the audience :)

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