J-j-james·Oct 27, 2020
There's a tracking issue for this: https://github.com/nim-lang/needed-libraries/issues/77
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This repository contains a list a needed libraries.
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| Jun 22 | 2020-06-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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What Hacker News says
3 sourcesThe main reasons I see for nim in scientific computing over python are:
(a) you need performance for applications outside of numpy / pandas & you want to avoid writing a C extension to do so (nim is also actually a good choice for python extensions via nimpy - if you are still using python as the main language of your project/system)
(a2) you want good concurrency (some would say python's async/await is good - but it feels too little too late to me) & you at least want the option of parallelism (like this article takes advantage of)
(b) you want / need the powerful macro system for dsls / custom (compile-type-checkable) language extensions.
There is a good future for nim in scientific computing (frankly, there is a good present) - but for it to be better, people need to be willing to forgo some of the ecosystem (when possible) and to help
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build that future.
https://github.com/nim-lang/needed-libraries/issues/77
I think the best is to go there:
- https://nimble.directory/
- https://github.com/Willyboar/awesome-nim
- https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Curated-Packages
What kind of packages are you looking for?
This also logs what is requested and what is being worked on by the community.
https://github.com/nim-lang/needed-libraries/issues
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