I just got version 9 of the meap. I was curious about the actual improvement work of the manning people. My early expectation was that they would not do much, indeed I think they can not do much, just because they do not understand the matter. So only a few grammar fixes remain to them, and I have the feeling that is what they did.
But they still have not discovered that in the "Welcome" preface there are still 10 chapters mentioned, while we all know that only 9 are left. And in the first chapter this weak paragraph is still present: " One feature of the language makes it particularly well suited to systems programming. You will find that Nim is a compiled language, but the way in which it is compiled is special. When source code is compiled by the Nim compiler, it is first translated into C code. C is a pretty old but well supported systems programming language; because of this, more direct and easier access to the physical hardware of the machine is allowed. As such, Nim is very well suited to writing operating systems, compilers, device drivers, embedded system software, and more. ... Applications written in Nim are very fast, in many cases just as fast as applications written in C and more than 13 times faster than applications written in Python. " Of course that is not really wrong and most of us do know what Dom wants to express, but it is a very weak wording. And exactly 13 times -- funny. So I wonder what the Manning contribution to the books is?
