Re: Communication of the Nim language
I like the idea of examples aimed at various use cases: web dev, game dev, scientific dev etc. It would be good to have this on the front page. If someone wants to implement that then you have my blessing. @sirbroadwell thank you for writing this. It's good to spark these kinds of discussions. I see you mentioning articles on medium, please consider writing some articles yourself, our community needs to help us get Nim more popular :)
Re: type mismath in simple math
I think that this is the best solution, and it just so happens to be consistent other languages (Java and Kotlin come to mind). import math echo 2f^2*2.0 Run You could even do this: import math echo 2f^2*2 Run > However, the following code will raise an error as type mismatch... It _is_ a type mismatch, so, **good**. I 've had it with languages whose solution for easily preventable errors is `Segmentation fault` or `Bus error`, especially when those errors could be caught at compile time.
Re: type mismath in simple math
To add to _mratsim_ answer, you can also write: import math echo 2.0^2 * 2.0 Run and even: import math echo 2.0^2 * 2 Run In the latter code, the compiler convert 2 to 2.0 as it knows that a float is expected. So, there is some flexibility though.
Re: type mismath in simple math
Nim is statically typed, meaning it checked at compile-time that you are not mixing apples and oranges unless you specifically allows that. That is because mixing types (integers and booleans, floats and integers) or quantities (miles and meters) is a big source of bugs in weakly typed languages. You can import the `lenientops` module if you want less strict math operators: import math, lenientops echo 2^2*2.0 Run
Re: jester: Can't access javascript or css files
When I was trying to install the software the script loading failed. I have checked [https://itunessupport.org/blog/cannot-install-itunes-on-windows-7](https://itunessupport.org/blog/cannot-install-itunes-on-windows-7) for the solution of the problem and got to know about it. Please help me to fix the problem.
Re: Communication of the Nim language
Be careful, setting an example with a concrete goal helps to imagine how you can use the language and ease of implementation The HTTP server is a good example to show it Moreover, this does not mean in any way that the language can only do webdev many companies use Crystal for machine learning for example ^^^ Like many others use Elixir for game servers
Re: Communication of the Nim language
After reading this thread the other day I spent some hours building the website and learning about jekyll/liquid and preparing some code samples that were at least somewhat varied and that fit into the rather small space the website gives to the code. But when I got to the CSS crafting stage, I decided this was a bad idea. The idea I had in mind was [https://dlang.org](https://dlang.org)/ 's selection menu with lots of different code samples. I think that's completely doable with the current website. But, do you really want to do it? Look around. Can you find any other programming language page that has a display like dlang's? I looked around, and my favorite code samples were those in the form of a normal webpage. Click a link, there's some code, there's some prose talking about the code, and you can just scroll down the page to get more examples, with earlier prose helping to explain later examples. Meanwhile, on dlang.org you have to fiddle with HTML UI elements to make random-access selections from a list, with no explanation. The popular thing to do now is to link to Rosetta Code. And nim-lang.org does that. And although that gives the reader a huge list of possibly-individually-interesting links to look at, RosettaCode is not at all optimized to make a language look good. I think the code example we have now is fine, and the easiest enhancement would be to replace the RosettaCode link with a link to a tour of Nim that has what you're hoping to get out of a bunch of code examples on the front page. That's something anyone could do. If it's not done when another weekend rolls around I might try again at this. Start with something like your own blog entry. Theme: sell Nim with sample code. But if you want something _really_ cool, look at [https://www.haskell.org](https://www.haskell.org)/ . I don't think they pull it off that well, and it's not yet a good fit for Nim or for nim-lang.org. But it's certainly attention-getting.
