Appreciate the quote of the Essentialism book by Greg McKweon, which I am currently reading. Funnily enough I decided the book when I found out (on Imprint app) that one of the key values of the “essentialist” is playfulness. I was sold.
Congrats! I had a great time doing a batch remotely from Italy (2.5 years ago), there is a lot of investment in making sure the remote experience is great and it shows!
- Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool)
- Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one)
- Treeform talking about Nim and AI (always very clean and inspiring presentations)
- Capocasa's testimony about building a (economic) coding agent in Nim
- Gianmarco talking about Nim for embedded
- Peter telling the story on how he introduces Nim to his company's new hires
I am pretty sure the general quality will be good and there will be hidden pearls (last year pearl for me was the one about putting Nim on e-ink screens all over the house)
(you won't find name of authors in the conf page but you will find them in the youtube playlists)
My love letter video turned out a bit chaotic, I apologize upfront.
But the core points I make there I can get behind any day of a week. I do think Nim is the best language out there and I'm tired of pretending it isn't (insert the DeNiro-Phoenix-Joker meme here :-)
AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format).
The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is possible there are still improvements)
> You can easily make the case that Tadej Pogačar is one of the world’s best athletes. Plus he enjoys a wholesome reputation, a cherubic look at races and a cheerful presence on social media. Good luck finding someone who knows him to say a bad word. He ought to be the face of Kelloggs cereal, Gillette razors, Pepsi Cola or Visa cards. Maybe all of them at the same time. Crypto? Meh, but why not. But Ku Coin?
If you happen to pass by Ivrea (short trip from Turin or Milan) there is a very nice small museum which showcases most of the machines mentioned. It has also a working Programma 101 and if you are lucky there might be a volounteer that can demo it. There also volounteer giving guided tours and if you are with kids you have the option to have them do a workshop (includes some 3d printing).
Great work! As a side track, it led me to dive into the history of the manufacturing company of Breda trains. Originally founded in Milan late 1800s by Ernesto Breda for locomotives, expanded in the war products during the wars, and went through nationalization, fusion to become AnsaldoBreda and later bough by Japanese to become Hitachi Rail Italy.
Later to get banned from bidding on the contract for the replacement vehicles because the trains were so mediocre (although somehow still better than the earlier Boeings) and the company so brazenly corrupt.
Meanwhile SF runs 1800s–early 1900s era Milan trams on their heritage line. Not built by Breda, because of course.
