I recently released Babel version 0.4.0 on Github . Babel is the official package manager for the Nimrod programming language . With this release I decided it's time to talk about how far Babel has come since its initial release. Myself and the rest of the Nimrod community have been working very hard on getting the design of Babel just right, it took us 3 iterations and a lot of hard work to get…
Nimrod is a relatively new programming language that is severely underrated in comparison to other new programming languages. This article aims to change that, its goal is to show off Nimrod's excellence and to raise awareness about this brilliant programming language. Nimrod is a compiled programming language with a static type system which puts it in the same category as the Rust, C++ and Go…
Ever since I started using GTK+ a couple of years ago with a little Python IRC client project called Nyx I have been faced with scrolling problems in GTK+. Nyx has been a great introduction to GTK+ programming for me but I have since moved away from that project onto a much bigger and more exciting project called Aporia . Aporia has started as a simple text editor written in the Nimrod programming…
The beginning of this blog has been foretold for a long time now. There was always something that stopped me from doing it though. First a little bit of history. My first blog had its home on blogspot. Even though it was convenient it was not powerful enough for my needs. The formatting was annoying and there was no easy way to tell it to add syntax highlighting to a piece of code. This may have…