I'm a human. _Of course_ I use higher level functionality when available and adequate. I'm no less lazy than others - g
For configs for example I use high level modules (like json). But for some things the ugly old way of using low level binary writing is needed. Btw: I'm less afraid than many because crypto is a major part of my work and that _is_ low level by its very nature. Also of importance (well, to me): that's one of Nim's strengths; it can serve at a level almost as low a C as well as on a level not far from Python. If I had to choose the latter is very nice and great for productivity but the former is conditio sine qua non. IMHO the real solution to that problem field would be to have something like "toBinary" and "fromBinary" for all types returning a byte array or seq. But I'm not complaining; I guess comes time come (stable) solutions.
