Nim in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. Why Nim?

Figure 1.1. Compilation backends

Figure 1.2. How Nim compiles source code

Figure 1.3. How the Nim compilation process compares to other programming languages

Chapter 2. Getting started

Figure 2.1. The syntax of a Nim procedure definition

Figure 2.2. for loop syntax in Nim

Chapter 3. Writing a chat application

Figure 3.1. My screen after I send the message

Figure 3.2. John’s and Grace’s screens

Figure 3.3. Client-server vs. peer-to-peer

Figure 3.4. The operation of the chat application

Figure 3.5. Successful compilation of client.nim

Figure 3.6. Starting the client without any parameters

Figure 3.7. Starting the client with one parameter

Figure 3.8. The supplied command-line parameters and how to access ...