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Life & fun · August 8, 2017

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Nim in Action

Nim in Action launched on August 8, 2017 with 229 votes, #105 of 3,214 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

In plain words

Nim in Action is a book that teaches the Nim programming language through practical projects like CLI chat applications, web apps, and parsers. Written for developers interested in systems programming, it covers Nim's combination of low-level performance with Python-like simplicity. The book emphasizes best practices and concepts applicable across programming languages, making it useful for developers working with various technologies.

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From the sources

Learn by implementing useful software projects. Including CLI chat applications , web apps , parsers and much more! Nim is a new systems programming language that gives you the low-level power of C with the elegance and ease of languages like Python and Ruby. It is perfect for developers that wish to explore systems programming. The book includes best practices and concepts that apply to almost all programming languages. So you will be able to use what you learn for software projects in other languages as well. This book has been written with Nim 1.0 in mind, going as far as including all of the examples in the book inside Nim's test suite to ensure they do not break. With the release of…from book.picheta.me

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