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2025q4 Nim Core Libraries

Dec 23, 2025, 2 min read

vac:nim:ift:2025q4-nim-core-libs

Description

Maintain and extend the foundational Nim libraries required by IFT teams, delivering portable CPU integer primitives and improved CLI parsing utilities.

Task List

Create Standalone CPU Integer Library

  • fully qualified name: vac:nim:ift:2025q4-nim-core-libs:cpu-integer-library
  • owner: Constantine
  • status: in progress (90%)
  • start-date: 2025/11/15
  • end-date: 2025/12/31

Description

  • Extract low-level, hardware- and compiler-specific primitives from stint/private/primitives and turn them into a reusable, standalone library for CPU-sized integers. Model the design after Rust’s integer intrinsics, nim-stew PR #187, and Constantine’s arithmetic core, with clean abstractions, cross-platform support, and a minimal, well-documented API. The resulting library should serve as a foundational building block for bigint and cryptographic libraries like Stint and Constantine.

Deliverables

Command line parsers

  • fully qualified name: vac:nim:ift:2025q4-nim-core-libs:command-line-parsers
  • owner: Esteban
  • status: in progress (90%)
  • start-date: 2025/11/15
  • end-date: 2025/12/31

Description

Advance command-line parsing utilities (e.g. https://github.com/status-im/nim-confutils), covering new ergonomics and integration support for Nim projects.

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