Appendix A. Getting help

While reading this book, you may run into cases where some concepts might be tough to understand, one of the examples doesn’t work, or you have trouble installing something like the Nim compiler on your machine.

The Nim community, which includes me, is available to help with such issues. This appendix describes different ways that you can get in touch with people who will be happy to help.

A.1. Real-time communication

The fastest way to get help is via one of the two real-time communication applications used by Nim programmers: IRC and Gitter. At the time of writing, there are more than 100 users in both Nim’s IRC channel and Gitter room.

The messages are relayed between IRC and Gitter, so speaking in one will send ...

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