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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 s
by 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 agoNo. 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!")