Nim 1.4 - Hackdot

Re:Nim 1.4 by jimbob45 on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:39PM (#24803715)

So you use Docker to keep the build system unchanged between builds? That’s genius if so and cuts deeply into MSBuild’s main advantage (comprehensively delineated system settings).

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Re:Nim 1.4 by nivviv on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:53PM (#24803844)

I think there might be a misunderstanding. I'm just talking about the multiplayer service infrastructure, not the whole game.

Despite doing a lot and having a lot of smaller moving parts, the mp infra is of moderate code size and build complexity is not a concern. The whole thing compiles in less than 5 minutes, and can be done with nimble (the package manager). We have a docker builder image that spits out the final production image containing the apps, and a docker-compose setup then runs those as needed.

Any kind of per-platform specifics are handled in nim itself (when defined(Linux): etc) and via nim.config/nims.nim, to link in platform libraries.

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