Nim Apocrypha, Vol. I

Table of contents Intro I — The Not-So-Obvious 1 Reducing executable size by stripping debug symbols 2 Release builds with exception logging 3 Switching to ARC/ORC 4 Executable icons on Windows (MinGW) 5 Debug echo in Windows GUI programs (MinGW) II — The Hidden 6 ‘using’ keyword 7 Opening URLs in the default browser 8 Cross-platform home and config directories 9 Debug dumping expressions 10 Measuring elapsed time 11 Dealing with openarrays III — The Crafty 12 Easy pointer manipulations 13 Taming circular type dependencies 14 ‘with’ macro 15 Aliases IV — The Grand Finale 16 Saving memory by object field reordering Outro Intro Greetings fellow Nim adventurers!