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9341 :: Translating "Nature of Code" to Nim - Which graphics library should I use?

• woodwindblues (orginal) [2022-08-02T15:27:28+02:00] view original

  Hello,

  I am quite new to Nim and to get used to it, I would like to translate the "Nature of Code" (and later on mybe some OpenFrameworks Cookbook) examples to Nim. Which graphics libraries would you recommend for that? The ones I found were heavily oriented towards game development and therefore cared a lot about state and other things that make it more cumbersome to get a simple graphical simulation going than Processing or OpenFrameworks.

  I am grateful for any advice :)

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• pietroppeter (orginal) [2022-08-02T18:14:28+02:00] view original

  that book looks nice, thanks for sharing: https://natureofcode.com/book/introduction/

  I see it uses processing so a natural advice would be to try and use nimp5 (a wrapper of p5js), since p5js is sort of a port of processing to web.

  I was trying to see if this nimp5 works and if I am able to make it work with nimib but there is an issue with nimp5 and a couple of issues with having it work with nimib. Nothing that seems unsurmountable though.

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• woodwindblues (orginal) [2022-08-02T20:14:27+02:00] view original

  Would this mean Nim would compile my code to Javascript? Or would it somehow compile everything (including the wrapped JS library) to it's intermediary C representation?

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• pietroppeter (orginal) [2022-08-02T20:43:32+02:00] view original

  Nim would compile your code to JavaScript

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• planetis (orginal) [2022-08-02T21:17:16+02:00] view original

  There is also drawim https://github.com/GabrielLasso/drawim and nico https://github.com/ftsf/nico

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• pietroppeter (orginal) [2022-08-02T21:57:41+02:00] view original

  in the meantime I was able to produce a small "bouncing ball" example in Nimib with manual wrapping of the minimal stuff I need for p5js: https://pietroppeter.github.io/nblog/drafts/bouncing_ball_p5js.html

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• ingo (orginal) [2022-08-02T22:51:51+02:00] view original

  I am grateful for any advice

  May be not for this one. Be cool, output to text file and render with POV-Ray :)

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• dlesnoff (orginal) [2022-08-04T23:41:40+02:00] view original

  Thanks for sharing the book. I am looking forward to see your Nim's translation. Pietroppeter's advice seems fine to me, I don't do UI so I can't help much but link you to the official nim curated list: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#web-technology It doesn't do an UI comparison but at least you know which libraries there are out there. Note that c and cpp backend are compatible but not with the js backend. When using a JS library, you will have to use only js backend.

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