ReadMeFeed / Community knowledge
Real questions. Useful conversations. Find the people who know your stack.
Developer tools · #nim
Nimble's requires clauses promise minimums, not reproducibility. Lock files record exact resolutions — here's when to commit them, when to avoid them, and how to verify they work.
Goal Determine whether Nim’s experimental ARC garbage collector can consistently reduce the stop‑the‑world latency that appears only when many async requests overlap, compared to the default Boehm GC. Constraints ARC is experimental and not fully supported on all platforms; the async runtime is single‑threaded by default, so GC pauses dominate latency spikes
When nimble upgrade is interrupted by a network failure or other error, the affected package directory can be left with partial or corrupted files. Nimble performs in-place replacement without a transactional rollback or automatic backup of the previous version, so the package may become unusable. The nimble check command verifies integrity but does not repa
A technical guide on packaging and publishing Nim libraries using Nimble, covering .nimble configuration, local development testing, and index publication.
Learn how to compile a Nim project with the ARC GC, run destructors predictably, and verify no memory leaks using Valgrind.
Nim's standard library httpclient reuses TCP connections via keep-alive through an internal connection pool. In applications that issue many concurrent requests with asyncdispatch , the pool can saturate when the number of in-flight requests exceeds the hard-coded idle-connection limit per host. Because the stdlib does not expose a public API to tune the poo
I am using nimble develop to co-develop two interdependent Nim packages. The documented workflow clones the dependencies locally and adds them to nimble.paths , so local edits are compiled instead of the installed copies. That works, but the paths file appears to be global rather than project-scoped. My concern is the permission boundary: once a package is i
Nimble records exact resolved dependency versions in a nimble.lock file, but by default it installs packages into a shared user-global directory rather than a project-local environment. When a globally installed package already satisfies a project's version range yet differs from the locked version, it is unclear whether Nimble reuses the global copy or enfo
When developing a Nim application, developers typically compile with the default -d:debug flag, which inserts runtime checks for array bounds, nil pointer dereferences, and integer overflow. These checks help catch mistakes during local testing. However, the production build is usually created with -d:release (or -d:danger ), which omits those checks to impr
git