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Method Call Syntax In Nim, a.f(b) is really just syntactic sugar for f(a, b). Note: they look like methods but aren’t attached to the type/object at all. Which function to call will be figured out at compile time, just like normal function calls. You can use this to implement pseudo extension methods on standard types like strings: import nim_utils/files, os, strformat proc makeBackup(filename: string) = let backupPath = fmt"{filename}.bak" case filename. [Read More]

I currently work for a company called Pure Storage. One of their products is called Flashblade. I couldn’t find any examples on how to use Flashblade’s S3 capabilities programmatically anywhere online, so I’m putting this out to hopefully help people realize they can move their object store into their data center with very little changes to their code. Code Snippets Most of the work with the libraries I’ve used involves figuring out how to get the client configured properly. [Read More]