Part 2. Nim in practice

Now that you know the basics of Nim, you’re ready to move on to writing some software.

In chapter 3, you’ll be developing a simple but functional chat application. This chapter will mainly teach you about asynchronous sockets, but you’ll also learn something about parsing and generating JSON, reading text from the standard input stream, and using Nim’s module system.

Chapter 4 focuses on the standard library, showing you usage examples of various algorithms and data structures defined there. It also offers a more in-depth look at the module system.

Chapter 5 looks at package management, which is extremely common nowadays. Package managers are useful because they offer an easy way to install third-party libraries for ...

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