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2. Week 2: Nim

Nicolas Modrzyk1 
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 

Jenner : I learned this much: take what you can, when you can.

Justin : Then you have learned nothing.

—The Secret of Nimh

Nim has been on my list of adopted languages for the last two years. Visually, it looks and feels very similar to Python, but it can also be compiled to a binary, via C, C++, Objective-C, and even JavaScript. I have seen compiled binary Nim programs running very fast, and I really wished Nim would reach the next level of adoption.

Today, we’re going to focus on building bots, runnable as a binary, built with Nim. We will, of course, start by setting up a Nim environment ...

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