Even if you don't intend to purchase the book I would love to hear feedback from you about the first chapter (which is free!)[1]. Really excited about this book and am looking forward to any feedback at all from the HN community.
1 - https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/6/df42fc6-...
Even though I write Nim code, I still bought the book, but more so for the later chapters:
8. INTERFACING WITH OTHER LANGUAGES
9. METAPROGRAMMING
10. DIRECT HARDWARE CONTROL
Best of luck with the rest of the writing!
I think you're right, Nim compile times are fast and deserve to be mentioned. Will make a note to add this.
Debugging will be a part of Chapter 5. But I will make a note about addressing people coming from Python and Ruby.
Thanks again!
One small note, since I know that this book is getting started: Rust does have some amount of CTFE available in nightly (const fn), and it and/or compiler plugins may very well be stable by the time this book is released. So you might want to make a note to double-check the state of that when you're closer to a final draft.
Congrats and good luck! Writing a book is so rewarding, but so draining.
I will certainly keep my eye on that and update my table appropriately :)
this will encourage students and casuals to look into nim