2026q1 Nim Core Libraries

ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs

Description §

Maintain and extend the foundational Nim libraries required by IFT teams.

Task List §

Json RPC §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:json-rpc
• owner: Nitely
• status: in progress (70%)
• start-date: 2026/01/01
• end-date: 2025/02/14

Description §

• Improve JSON-RPC (e.g: https://github.com/status-im/nim-json-rpc) by adding support for custom protocol flavors, CBOR payloads, and more comprehensive documentation. These enhancements will enable JSON-RPC to be used efficiently for cross-thread and cross-process (IPC) RPC protocol

Deliverables §

• PRs
  • vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization#24 Bump to v0.3.0
  • vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization#23 Avoid DefaultFlavor ambiguity
  • vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization#22 Prefix error types
  • vacp2p/nim-cbor-serialization#20 Avoid mixin ambiguity errors
  • status-im/nim-json-rpc#259 Fix #239; allow custom JSON flavors for client code

Integrate nim-intops into nim-bncurve and nim-stint §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:intops-integration-bncurve-stint
• owner: Juan/Constantine
• status: in progress (99%)
• start-date: 2026/01/01
• end-date: 2026/02/14

Description §

• Integrate nim-intops into both nim-bncurve and nim-stint, ensuring compatibility, performance, and test coverage across both codebases.

Deliverables §

• PRs
  • vacp2p/nim-intops#11 Merged the benchmarks PR
• Docs
  • Guide on creating new benchmarks
  • vacp2p/nim-intops#18 Added testing against more Nim versions
• Releases
  • nim-intops changelog Released six intops versions

Protobuf Serialization in libp2p §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:libp2p-protobuf-serialization
• owner: Nitely
• status: in progress (5%)
• start-date: 2026/02/15
• end-date: 2026/03/31

Description §

• Add protobuf serialization support within libp2p, aligning scope and design with the existing libp2p stack and future messaging needs.

Deliverables §

• PRs

Language Server and Editor Integration §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:language-server-editor-integration
• owner: Constantine
• status: in progress (5%)
• start-date: 2026/02/14
• end-date: 2026/03/31

Description §

• Develop language-server capabilities and editor integrations.

Deliverables §

• nim-lang/langserver#380 Started researching the issue with no backticked symbols in picker
• nim-lang/langserver#226 Missing licence Misplaced inlay hints
• PRs

Documentation §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:docs
• owner: Constantine
• status: in progress (20%)
• start-date: 2026/01/01
• end-date: 2026/03/31

Description §

• Produce documentation for the core libs.

Deliverables §

• Docs
  • status-im/nim-chronos#617 Chronos tutorial chapters: Request and Concurrency
  • status-im/nimbus-common-workflow#17 Add common workflow for docs (mdBook)
  • status-im/nim-stint#171 Docs updates
  • nim-stint docs site
  • status-im/nim-chronos#612 Optimize mdBook build time

Maintenance §

• fully qualified name: ift-ts:nim:ift:2026q1-nim-core-libs:maintenance
• owner: Constantine
• status: in progress (20%)
• start-date: 2026/01/01
• end-date: 2026/03/31

Description §

• Ongoing maintenance and fixes across Nim core libraries.

Deliverables §

• PRs
  • status-im/nim-stew#266 Deprecate saturating_arith and saturation_arith
  • status-im/nim-unittest2#65 Fix print expression content
  • [M] Pinned default mdBook version in the common docs workflow: https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-common-workflow/pull/20
  • Reported that nimble install -g foo bar installs only bar: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/1604
  • vacp2p/nim-intops#20 Improve narrowingDiv based on review comments
  • status-im/nimbus-common-workflow#15 Fix Nimbus common workflow for tests
  • status-im/nim-stint#172 Code review PR
• Releases
  • nim-intops 1.0.7 changelog