NimConf 2022: A preview of Nim 2 [video]

Topics from the talk:

- Design goal: make it easy to write code that works with version 1 and 2

- No pointless syntax games

- Stricter compiler, better defaults

- Based on the code base of version 1: evolution, not revolution

- Nim 2 release: 2022

Some new features:

- object fields with default values

- more precision in how values are initialised

- overload enums

- ORC: the default for memory management in Nim 2

- and more...