2 ms·
I can't help but feel that given the requirements laid out in the article Nim would be a more suitable fit for their goals over Rust. I do think Nim really nail
by stolen_biscuit 6y ago
I can't help but feel that given the requirements laid out in the article Nim would be a more suitable fit for their goals over Rust. I do think Nim really nails great performance with a very clean and straightforward syntax, certainly easier for someone who only works in Python to pick up over Rust.
- chairmanwow1 6y agoNim would be a nice option if the ecosystem were even half as developed as the Rust package ecosystem.
- stolen_biscuit 6y agoKind of a chicken and egg scenario there really. A few early adopters will need to branch out and start using it to get that momentum building, which is probably a great opportunity for scientists who are looking for an alternative
- chairmanwow1 6y agoI think this is exactly the point I was making. There isn’t a real reason to use Nim, so no one but language enthusiasts will.
- planetis 6y agoReason for using Nim is its simplicity, anyone writing Python can switch to Nim, fast compile times and it's speed which is on par with C/C++
- planetis 6y agoNim has plotting, dataframe, matrix libs and even a fully featured machine learning library, I don't see the reason why it can't be used, especially by scientists. https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim https://github.com/unicredit/neo https://github.com/unicredit/neo https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer