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If you don't mind me asking, what in particular were you searching for? I agree that Nim's documentation needs a lot of love but would like suggestions on what specifically you had trouble with so that I can at least improve that (for now) :)

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Unfortunately I can't remember the details at this point. There was something I couldn't figure out with the `new` function and heap allocation in general, and I also got frustrated trying to understand some things about the type system. I do know one thing about `new` was that it took me forever to figure out how to allocate anything on the heap at all, only to find a couple lines about `new` in the API docs. At least, I think that's what happened.

Sorry I can't be more specific.

No worries, thank you for replying :)

Curious as to when you had this problem, I thought the manual was fairly descriptive: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-reference-and-po...

I'm sure your original question was more nuanced, but for anyone wondering about this basically any ref type is heap allocated, and you do this by calling new, so:

  type MyType = ref object
  var myHeapObject: MyType
  new myHeapObject

Pretty much anything else is stack allocated and doesn't need the GC if I remember right.

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