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What do you think about Julia?

• progman 11y ago
  I have barely touched Julia and I am impressed by the performance. It could become a real competitor to R. Nim could also play a significant role because its syntax is similar to Python, and because NumPy is a Python API which is very prominent among scientists. However someone has yet to write a Nim library similar to NumPy. Nim has the advantage of zero overhead to C, and it compiles to C which makes Nim an interesting option for super computing.
  • quotemstr 11y ago
    > Nim has the advantage of zero overhead to C, Untrue. Nim requires the use of a garbage collector.
    • progman 11y ago
      No. Counter example from http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/ http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/nim/: # Because Nim compiles to C, FFI is easy: proc strcmp(a, b: cstring): cint {.importc: "strcmp", nodecl.} let cmp = strcmp("C?", "Easy!")