Nim: Version 2.0.0 RC2

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A new Nim blog post/announcement has been posted!

The second release candidate (RC2) for Nim version 2.0 is ready for testing.

Don’t panic! One of our design goals was to make it easy to write code that works with Nim version 1 and 2. Many important packages already work with version 2 and as usual many innovations are behind switches that can be enabled or disabled on a per module level thanks to the .experimental pragma.

Version 2 is based on the same codebase as version 1, it’s an evolution, not a revolution.

Compared to the RC1, we have many ORC-related bugfixes, but the most crucial difference for ordinary users are the vastly improved error messages:

proc foo(s: string) = discard...

Get the full details here: Version 2.0.0 RC2 - Nim Blog