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)
- 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)
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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.
Yet another appreciation story for Miguel’s mega tutorial. In 2017 I used it to create our wedding site and learn a bit of web dev (my background is in data science). To motivate me to actually do it I used the strategy the fund the then occurring refactoring of the tutorial. I am still very fond and proud of that first time I actually went and funded some open source effort, it gives you back more than you might expect
The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is possible there are still improvements)