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+# Example from nim front page. Compile with:
+#
+#   nim  -c -d:release c example && ./example
+
+import std/strformat
+
+type
+  Person = object
+    name: string
+    age: Natural # Ensures the age is positive
+
+let people = [
+  Person(name: "John", age: 45),
+  Person(name: "Kate", age: 30)
+]
+
+for person in people:
+  # Type-safe string interpolation,
+  # evaluated at compile time.
+  echo(fmt"{person.name} is {person.age} years old")
+
+
+# Thanks to Nim's 'iterator' and 'yield' constructs,
+# iterators are as easy to write as ordinary
+# functions. They are compiled to inline loops.
+iterator oddNumbers[Idx, T](a: array[Idx, T]): T =
+  for x in a:
+    if x mod 2 == 1:
+      yield x
+
+for odd in oddNumbers([3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18]):
+  echo odd
+
+
+# Use Nim's macro system to transform a dense
+# data-centric description of x86 instructions
+# into lookup tables that are used by
+# assemblers and JITs.
+import macros, strutils
+
+macro toLookupTable(data: static[string]): untyped =
+  result = newTree(nnkBracket)
+  for w in data.split(';'):
+    result.add newLit(w)
+
+const
+  data = "mov;btc;cli;xor"
+  opcodes = toLookupTable(data)
+
+for o in opcodes:
+  echo o