Introduction to the Introduction (Meta-Introduction) Wikipedia gives us a nice description of metaprogramming: Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse and/or transform o...

About a month ago I set up statistics for the official DDNet servers. My motivations for this are: Monitor the servers more easily Get notified about server problems Have nice graphs to look at The choices for the software used are mainly made to keep resource usage low, a general principle used for...

Surprisingly I’m working on HookRace again. I might share a few interesting code snippets and thoughts in this blog along the way. I’m still going with Nim as the programming language. For an easy start let’s write a logging module that can be used everywhere in the game’s server as well as client. ...

Last night I had an idea and implemented it, soo let’s see what will happen. But first, the idea: Have a livestream [1] of DDNet running non-stop [2] that always shows some interesting [3] players on the server. The resulting livestream is running on Twitch. All the scripts are on Github 1. Livestre...

The size of binaries in the Nim programming language seems to be a popular topic recently. Nim’s slogan is expressive, efficient, elegant, so let’s examine the efficient part in this post by exploring a few ways to reduce the size of a simple Nim Hello World binary on Linux. Along the way we will: B...

Let me get this straight. We have an emulator for 1985 hardware that was written in a pretty new language (Go), ported to a language that isn’t even 1.0 (Nim), compiled to C, then compiled to JavaScript? And the damn thing actually works? That’s kind of amazing. — Summary by haberman I spent the las...

Since today Nim 0.11 has been released, I guess it’s a good time to release this as well: NimES is a NES emulator written in Nim. More info in the GitHub repository and the JS demo. Discussion on Hacker News and Reddit.

I spent the last weekend working through the amazing guide for Make a Lisp, writing a Lisp interpreter in Nim. The final result just made it into the repository. Running the Nim version is pretty simple. You need the Nim compiler from the devel branch and nre which can be installed through nimble. A...

My most recent post goes in another direction (no, it’s still about Nim): How I start a new Nim project. Check out the article on howistart.org. Comments on Hacker News and Reddit as always.

In my last two posts, “What is special about Nim?” and “What makes Nim practical”, I forgot the important conclusion - why I personally have decided for Nim in favor of Rust, C++, Python and Haskell: Nim is not the fastest language, it’s not the easiest language to write in and it surely has some fl...

In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language? Binary Distribution Programs written in interpreted languages like Python are difficult to distribute. Either you require Python (i...

Russian Translation by frol, Chinese Translation by JiyinYiyong, Japanese Translation by Mutsuha Asada The Nim programming language is exciting. While the official tutorial is great, it slowly introduces you to the language. Instead I want to quickly show what you can do with Nim that would be more ...

To learn some Nim I held a talk about it at the GPN14 (in German, Slides). Afterwards I started solving Rosetta Code tasks in Nim to get a better feel for the language and standard library. That also made me discover some rough edges in the language, but luckily the community, albeit small, is activ...

I have been running DDraceNetwork for 1 year, which started out as a little server of a Teeworlds modification called DDRace. It has turned into the biggest project within Teeworlds, offering servers in 6 countries with thousands of players and dozens of mappers. We also offer a custom server and cl...