This is a question that has come up time and time again in the IRC channel, when talking to people in person, and in the comment section pretty much every time Nim has an article on Hackernews or one of the bigger programming subreddits. It’s also a question that has been answered a lot of times, both with a short and efficient “no”, but also in longer form. This article will go into some detail…
In the previous article we got a small primer on various kinds of multi-tasking, in this article we'll have a look at possibly the simplest form of this. Namely asynchronous execution. As discussed in the last article asynchronous execution is a way for our programs to tell the hardware to do something, and then do something else while waiting for it to complete the operation. This is great when we want to for example…
This is a series of articles about a topic in the Nim ecosystem that has so far been written fairly little about. Namely threading, asynchronous operation, and communication.
To begin we first need to have a good grasp of the concepts we're going to discuss. There is quite a bit of confusion around all the terms in this space, so let's start with some simple definitions. To put them in context let's first consider how a…
In order to stifle my tab-hoarding habits I have recently set my Firefox install to not recover sessions when I restart the browser. This means that every time I turn my computer off for the day it will delete all the random documenation pages and weird links people have sent me over the course of the day so they don't slowly add up. My habit was so bad that I could easily amass some 100-200…
For NimConf2020, our first virtual Nim conference, I realised how poor my microphone setup was. I have previously toyed with the idea of recording videos for various projects, or just presentations in the same style as the one I did for NimConf. For the conference I borrowed a better microphone from a friend, and recorded my presentation with that. But after the conference I started looking into getting a better microphone for myself and…