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What features would you like to see in Nim or the Nim Ecosystem:
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- "pure" mode - force usage of scoped variables (unless imported by from... import) and exact case match (like golang does).
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- lightweight threads with network io multiplexed.
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- if Nim had something like goroutine (ie multiplexed on networking and use native threads for other syscalls), then it will be ultimate language for server programming.
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- <del>gem like functionality (gem install sinatra)</del>
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- [nimble](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble)
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- A cookbook site similar to Python, where users can share code,
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mostly snippets. Driven by normal users rather by experts-only.
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- A wiki functionality for parts of the documentation so that
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users could update the documentation in a simple way (and Araq
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could take these suggestions and approve or reject them
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quickly).
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- A pastebin for nim on the Nim Homepage or somewhere else.
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- Allow multiple ranges (eg 1..3,5..8), handle reverse ranges (eg 5..1, 3.. -3)
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- echo automatically handle simple display of sequences (similar to repr)
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- vector and matrix maths (or include a port of an existing library)
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- include a do while loop (or equivalent)
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- % formating extended to include math precision (like provided by formatFloat, but in a concise % syntax way)
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- easier sorting, that doesn't need wrestling with types.
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- a ternary condition - like ?: in C, or iif()
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- You can do: ``if cond: a else: b``, IIRC the ``?:`` won't make it into Nim.
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- a simple way of indexing the last element of an array or sequence, to avoid long-hand code like ``arr[arr.len-1]``
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- You can do: ``arr[arr.high]`` or ``arr[arr.low]`` for indexing the last and first element or an array or sequence.
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- If it is ``thisismylongname[thisismylongname.high]`` thats not helpfull. ``thisismylongname[>]`` and ``thisismylongname[<]`` looks nice for that in my eyes.
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- a shorthand way of discarding the return value of a proc (to improve readability)
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- a shorthand initialization of arrays or sequences, eg var x: array[0..25, int] = -1
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would initialize all elements of x to -1
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- array/sequence comprehension
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- introspection like python's dir()
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- scoped imports, like D, Ada, and Ocaml
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- Nim documentation provided as .epub (tutorials + manual) |