Working on a hot code reloading library for Nim. It's a general solution, but specifically for my game framework.
An example of it in action: https://streamable.com/2mxktc
Source code: https://github.com/beef331/potato
Readit NewsHi yes interested, please share more!
There's not much more to share presently. The game presently is very far from having gameplay. The "terminot" part is MIT licensed inside the game repo. The game itself is presently GPL3 licensed.
Small hacking game: https://streamable.com/q840oc
Source: https://github.com/beef331/keyboardwarrior/blob/master/scree...
As someone working a TUI game I wanted stuff like this myself so just wrote what I now refer to as a "terminot". Actual shaders and non grid align rendering. Nice to see people attempt to emulate it in a proper terminal emulator.
If anyone is interested in what a terminot does: https://streamable.com/t5kz2y
ElegantBeef commented on Arraymancer – Deep learning Nim library github.com/mratsim/Arraym... · Posted by u/archargelod
Interesting that it "Supports tensors of up to 6 dimensions". Is it difficult to support an arbitrary number of dimensions, e.g. does Nim lack variadic generics?
It does not formally have variadics, but since it has tuples you can have pretend variadic generics.
ElegantBeef commented on Can you use a class in C? d4ckard.github.io/2023/08... · Posted by u/D4ckard
that is really, really ugly. using methods, I dont have to mess with function prefixes, and I dont have to pollute the global scope.
Again that's this language constraining you to that. With procedure overloading it's not required that you have to have that ugly API. For instance the following is valid Nim:
type
Cat = object # these are just 'struct' in a different skin
Dog = object
proc greet(c: Cat): string = "Meow"
proc greet(d: Dog): string = "Bark"
assert Dog().greet() == "Bark"
assert Cat().greet() == "Meow"Is pixie capable of realtime usage like in games or generative art? Last time I looked it seemed CPU-only.
I use pixie for my game framework. It's used to load textures, layout fonts, and render font atlases. It can be used for generative art but https://github.com/EriKWDev/nanim or sdl2 using renderer's makes more sense as they are gpu accelerated.
Where in the announcement does it say that?
They likely read "overloadable enums" and went "Oh Rust calls their tagged unions enums" so assumed all languages did.
I have a shortlist of pain points:
- Tooling is not great. The language server has a tendency to silently crash on occasion, and it's no rust-analyzer to begin with. A tooling rewrite has been delayed behind proper incremental compilation, which has been delayed behind ARC/ORC...
- Interfaces ("concepts") are experimental and there are two differing implementations.
- It lacks proper sum types and structural pattern matching in the core language. There are a number of quite good macro-based libraries that provide for this, however: fusion/matching, andreaferretti/patty, beef331/fungus, alaviss/union...
- Optional types are not the standard: the stdlib will throw exceptions. This is more so a personal preference than anything.
But that's about it. I do like Nim quite a lot.
> It lacks proper sum types
We've talked about this before! You know it has sum types, just not the variation you want.
that looks interesting, thanks! Did you try it if it delivers on promises? There was not any new commit since 2020 so not sure if the project is stale by now.
I do not use Rust, so sadly I have not.
Google wants my apartment lease to let me distribute free games, so I just won't support their platform.
This is not about security, it's about control.