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axiom-zig
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Zig, Rust, and Other Languages
Nim is also a strong player as a systems programming language. In terms of memory management, it's configurable, and by default you get ARC (no GC). I've written a hobby kernel (if you can call it that) in Nim[1] as well as Zig[2], and I found Nim to be much more ergonomic and approachable. The fact that Zig requires weaving an allocator through most calls that may allocate gets in the way of what I'm trying to do. I'd rather focus on core logic and have ref counting take care of dropping memory when appropriate.
One thing I wish Nim had though is true sum types with payloads. I think there's an RFC for that, but it's a shame it's not in the language yet.
[1] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom
[2] https://github.com/khaledh/axiom-zig
- Nim v2.0 Released
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Writing a Simple Operating System – From Scratch [pdf]
If anyone is interested, I have a couple of implementations of booting under UEFI and getting a bunch of info about the system (don't expect a functioning system, they just boot and dump some info):
Nim: https://github.com/khaledh/axiom
Zig: https://github.com/khaledh/axiom-zig (this one goes into depth in disassembling ACPI DSDT bytecode)
v
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Nim v2.0 Released
https://github.com/belamenso/v
This cleans up Nim's syntax a little, we use it in production with not much maintenance.
What are some alternatives?
axiom - A 64-bit kernel implemented in Nim
questionable - Elegant optional types for Nim
linux - Linux kernel source tree
FrameworkBenchmarks - Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
builder-hex0 - Builder-Hex0 is a minimal build system which includes a bootloader, kernel, shell, and a hex0 compiler
nimbus-eth2 - Nim implementation of the Ethereum Beacon Chain
uefi-rs - Rust wrapper for UEFI.
torrentinim - A very low memory-footprint, self hosted API-only torrent search engine. Sonarr + Radarr Compatible, native support for Linux, Mac and Windows.
norm - A Nim ORM for SQLite and Postgres
jester - A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.
nlvm - LLVM-based compiler for the Nim language