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diff --git a/web/index.rst b/web/index.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 4b712fa3b..000000000 --- a/web/index.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,89 +0,0 @@ -==== -Home -==== - -Welcome to Nim --------------- - -**Nim** is a statically typed, imperative -programming language that tries to give the programmer ultimate power without -compromises on runtime efficiency. This means it focuses on compile-time -mechanisms in all their various forms. - -Beneath a nice infix/indentation based syntax with a -powerful (AST based, hygienic) macro system lies a semantic model that supports -a soft realtime GC on thread local heaps. Asynchronous message passing is used -between threads, so no "stop the world" mechanism is necessary. An unsafe -shared memory heap is also provided for the increased efficiency that results -from that model. - - -Nim is efficient -================ - -* Native code generation (currently via compilation to C), not dependent on a - virtual machine: **Nim produces small executables without dependencies - for easy redistribution.** -* A fast **non-tracing** garbage collector that supports soft - real-time systems (like games). -* System programming features: Ability to manage your own memory and access the - hardware directly. Pointers to garbage collected memory are distinguished - from pointers to manually managed memory. -* Zero-overhead iterators. -* Cross-module inlining. -* Dynamic method binding with inlining and without virtual method table. -* Compile time evaluation of user-defined functions. -* Whole program dead code elimination: Only *used functions* are included in - the executable. -* Value-based datatypes: For instance, objects and arrays can be allocated on - the stack. - - -Nim is expressive -================= - -* **The Nim compiler and all of the standard libraries are implemented in - Nim.** -* Built-in high level datatypes: strings, sets, sequences, etc. -* Modern type system with local type inference, tuples, variants, - generics, etc. -* User-defineable operators; code with new operators is often easier to read - than code which overloads built-in operators. For example, a - ``=~`` operator is defined in the ``re`` module. -* Macros can modify the abstract syntax tree at compile time. - - -Nim is elegant -============== - -* Macros can use the imperative paradigm to construct parse trees. Nim - does not require a different coding style for meta programming. -* Macros cannot change Nim's syntax because there is no need for it. - Nim's syntax is flexible enough. -* Statements are grouped by indentation but can span multiple lines. - Indentation must not contain tabulators so the compiler always sees - the code the same way as you do. - - -Nim plays nice with others -========================== - -* The Nim Compiler runs on Windows, Linux, BSD and Mac OS X. - Porting to other platforms is easy. -* **The Nim Compiler can also generate C++ or Objective C for easier - interfacing.** -* There are lots of bindings: for example, bindings to GTK2, the Windows API, - the POSIX API, OpenGL, SDL, Cairo, Python, Lua, TCL, X11, libzip, PCRE, - libcurl, mySQL and SQLite are included in the standard distribution or - can easily be obtained via the - `Nimble package manager <https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble>`_. -* A C to Nim conversion utility: New bindings to C libraries are easily - generated by ``c2nim``. - - -Roadmap to 1.0 -============== - -Please have a look at -this `wiki page <https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Roadmap>`_ for -an up-to-date overview. |