Now that Nim is hitting 1.0, how would be the Windows support? What about Android? It's not that just running on Windows is of my interest; but a truly cross-platform tool-set; and Windows support is not great at this time.
And thanks for the awesome work!
Um, what do you mean by "Windows"? If you mean the desktop OS, Nim run on that just fine.
Android integration hasn't been tested very well. There is an example in the main repository of an Android application calling Nim via JNI. It should, in theory, work as well as calling C via JNI.
As for native android app support, unfortunately using Nim with Android's NDK hasn't been tried yet. It is theoretically possible, however the NDK documentation is rather sparse, and no one has been able to invest the time and energy in getting a working example running.
I don't know about running Nim as a Metro app, or on the Windows phone - truthfully, I know very little about either of those development platforms.
Edit: Clarified some stuff
Thanks; Yeah, that was what I meant. And no, I do not expect Nim to do anything platform specific on Windows; not UI; not COM or anything like that; but my main use-cases are writing web apps and tcp servers and some other services that serve other parts mainly via REST API and in some cases over pipes.
What I was curious about, was libs & tools on Windows; mainly IDEs & database drives.
Sorry for jumping right into the forum without making myself more familiar with Nim; but it's less that a day that I've heard about Nim and what is currently consuming my brain in short spins is Nim's hygienic macros (in a statically typed language!) & it's GC (per thread heap)! And I've just got excited!
(To be exact I've heard the name Nimrod; but at the time I was so opinionated. Now I'm just far more opinionated!)