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The Essential Docs, to get started quickly.
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1) Here's what you'll need to deploy your program.
Choose a target platform:
[Windows] [Linux] [Mac] [Android] [iPhone] [Web] [Web+Wasm] [Haiku] [Genode] [Nintendo Switch]
Note: Instructions for cross compilation are here.
2) Set up your environment, our recommendation. Please choose a platform:
...
3) Interacting with the compiler, basic instructions.
4) Writing a basic library, source control, unit tests, and IDE tips
5) Getting a skeleton program up and running, and using that library.
Please choose target for a step by step tutorial.
6) Language basics.
- These are wonderful tutorials: ... links...
7) Language at a glance, Nim from mainstream language:
- Nim for python programmers
- Nim for the C programmer
- Nim for C#
Also explain support for different paradigms in Nim. (procedural, OOP, functional)
8) Use Cases: How to do X in Nim? (by topic)
- Show Nim packages and std lib, Maybe in reference to other language capabilities, or even compared to their samples.
- Be honest if there are some holes, chance to show interop with python and nimgen+c2nim.
9) To learn more about Nim's features and how to use them, please refer to the official tutorial Part1, Part2, and the Manual.