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Nimble has a number of show-stopper issues preventing us from using it.

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We need to pin our dependencies precisely through lockfiles: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/127 Uncategorized yet: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/542 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/543 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/495 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/589 https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/432

Implement dispatching to forked ops

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#### 1) Modify the current opcode table to include the following information a) opcode number b) opcode name c) forks where the opcode was changed For example, it can look...

ULC will be the most lightweight client mode available in the Ethereum world before the introduction of Stateless clients. The premise is that block headers can be obtained from a...

Get devopment frameworks like Truffle to work with Nimbus

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Now that we have a nearly feature-complete EVM implementation, our next goal is to start executing increasingly more complex code. It should be possible to use Nimbus with some of...

Create a sharable debugging and testing environment for Ethereum

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We can create a Vagrant recipe that simplifies the complex setup required for testing Nimbus against other Ethereum clients. Such a VM would provide a GUI environment where all kind...

Implement APIs for async process I/O

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Chronos needs an API for launching sub-processes and interacting with their standard input and output through `AsyncPipe`. Additional APIs may be added for controlling process groups and for automatically terminating...

[RFC] Async I/O with structural control flow (a.k.a. Enforced Awaits)

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EDIT: 2020-02-12 Expanded the introduction section with more details explaining the existing problems in non-structural async. ### Abstract This is a proposal to change the semantics of the `async` procs...

Implement some basic benchmarks

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Your goal will be to create a benchmark testing asyncdispatch2 against the Nim's existing asyncdispatch module and the best competing frameworks available in other programming languages. A suitable choice would...