Hey guys!

Just wanted to mention an article I wrote yesterday:

http://goran.krampe.se/2014/11/03/squeak-to-nim

In fact, its the latest in a series of articles on Nim:

http://goran.krampe.se/category/nim


The gist of it and why I post here:

Squeak/Pharo has the ability to use .so/.dll libraries (typically 
written in C) via either VM plugins or FFI. The plugin route is a bit 
messy. The FFI route (there are multiple FFIs available as you may have 
heard, but my article uses the "old" one) on the other hand is quite 
easy to use.

Now... Nim is a higher level language than C, very very interesting in 
many ways - and it compiles via C (or C++) to either binaries or 
libraries. Such a library is just like a library in C, so we can easily 
call it using FFI.

So, if you wanted to play with very fast native code that is not the 
PURE PAIN like C or C++ is, then Nim is a very interesting alternative.

cheers, Göran