Jacek Sieka

> It gives Error: conversion from int literal(-1) to range 0..0(int) is invalid as expected I'm not sure I understand your comment. `toOpenArray(0, -1)` is a valid slice over `array[1,...

> Related to https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/23395 yeah that one is for refc (which would be the priority to fix as far as we're concerned) - this one is for orc.

This is an excellent opportunity to deprecate the re module and recommend a library instead, such as https://github.com/nitely/nim-regex (this way the library can be updated without waiting months for a...

> Nim repo seems to avoid dependencies on Nimble packages for now. actually it does not - some packages are depended upon and downloaded to a special `dist` folder to...

also, `nimgrep` could easily be a package - there's literally nothing in there that needs to live in nim proper.

a variation on #23687

I think let's work on this in a branch until hive and/or other disabled testing works again

Something to be careful about: code like https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth1/blob/32c51b14a4b574433d1cd0a48b3ebcb37022aa52/nimbus/core/validate.nim#L329 will allow negative values (!)

@winsvega I'd be curious to see the results of the latest master of nimbus today on the same machine, if you still have access

Should be fixed now, the tracer config accidentally broke