nim-wiki/Feature suggestions.md

What features would you like to see in Nimrod or the Nimrod Ecosystem:

- lightweight threads with network io multiplexed.
  - if Nimrod had something like goroutine (ie multiplexed on networking and use native threads for other syscalls), then it will be ultimate language for server programming.

- <del>gem like functionality (gem install sinatra)</del>
  - [babel](https://github.com/nimrod-code/babel)

- A cookbook site similar to Python, where users can share code,
mostly snippets. Driven by normal users rather by experts-only.

- A wiki functionality for parts of the documentation so that
users could update the documentation in a simple way (and Araq
could take these suggestions and approve or reject them 
quickly).

- A pastebin for nimrod on the Nimrod Homepage or somewhere else.

- Allow multiple ranges (eg  1..3,5..8), handle reverse ranges (eg 5..1, 3.. -3)

- echo automatically handle simple display of sequences (similar to repr)

- vector and matrix maths  (or include a port of an existing library)

- include a do while loop (or equivalent)

- % formating extended to include math precision (like provided by formatFloat, but in a concise % syntax way)

- easier sorting, that doesn't need wrestling with types.

- a ternary condition - like  ?: in C, or iif()
  - You can do: ``if cond: a else: b``, IIRC the ``?:`` won't make it into Nimrod.

- a simple way of indexing the last element of an array or sequence, to avoid long-hand code like ``arr[arr.len-1]``
  - You can do: ``arr[arr.high]`` or ``arr[arr.low]`` for indexing the last and first element or an array or sequence.

- a shorthand way of discarding the return value of a proc  (to improve readability)

- a shorthand initialization of arrays or sequences, eg   var x: array[0..25, int] = -1
would initialize all elements of x to -1 

- array/sequence comprehension

- introspection like python's dir()

- scoped imports, like D, Ada, and Ocaml