Here’s the translation of the Go rate limiting example to Nim, formatted in Markdown for Hugo:
Rate limiting is an important mechanism for controlling resource utilization and maintaining quality of service. Nim supports rate limiting with threads, channels, and timers.
Running our program we see the first batch of requests handled once every ~200 milliseconds as desired.
For the second batch of requests we serve the first 3 immediately because of the burstable rate limiting, then serve the remaining 2 with ~200ms delays each.
This example demonstrates how to implement basic and bursty rate limiting in Nim using asynchronous programming concepts. The asyncdispatch module is used for asynchronous operations, and channels are used to simulate requests and implement the rate limiting mechanism.