futhark VS nimpy

Compare futhark vs nimpy and see what are their differences.

futhark

Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim (by PMunch)
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futhark

Posts with mentions or reviews of futhark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
  • C23: A Slightly Better C
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    You don't want nimterop, you want futhark (https://github.com/PMunch/futhark).

    The C FFI Nim library lineage goes c2nim --> nimterop --> something i forgot --> futhark.

  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Ones that have not been mentioned so far:

    nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

    npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg

    futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark

    nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

    questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable

    ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

    cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps

    chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos

    zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

    owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle

    A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.

  • Why does Nim "wrap" C, rather than allow C code to be pasted directly to .nim files?
    1 project | /r/nim | 2 Jun 2022
    Have a look at Futhark . It does what you are requesting.
  • Current Goals for Nim?
    3 projects | /r/nim | 3 Jan 2022
    I'm not sure if Nimterop was created specifically to make Nim more mainstream. We have quite a couple different C/C++ interop tools, from c2nim in the core distribution to something like Futhark which automatically wraps things based on libclang.
  • Nim -- a modern "glue" language like Python
    9 projects | dev.to | 11 Oct 2021
    c2nim is a tool to translate ANSI C code to Nim. The output is human-readable Nim code that is meant to be tweaked by hand after the translation process. If you are tired of wrapping C library, you can try futhark which supports "simply import C header files directly into Nim". Similar to futhark, cinterop allows one to interop with C/C++ code without having to create wrappers. nimLUA is a glue code generator to bind Nim and Lua together using Nim's powerful macro. nimpy and nimporter is a bridge between Nim and Python. rnim is a bridge between R and Nim. nimjl is a bridge between Nim and Julia! Last but not least, genny generates a shared library and bindings for many languages such as Python, Node.js, C.
  • Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2021
  • Futhark: Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim
    2 projects | /r/nim | 22 Sep 2021

nimpy

Posts with mentions or reviews of nimpy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.
  • Mojo is now available on Mac
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    I mean honestly, the closest language to Mojo really is Nim. In the latest Lex Fridman interview [0] when he talks about his ideas behind Mojo it pretty much sounds like he's describing Nim. Ok fair, he wants Mojo to be a full superset of Python, but honestly with nimpy [1] our Python interop is about as seamless as it can really be (without being a superset, which Mojo clearly is not yet). Even the syntax of Mojo looks a damn lot like Nim imo. Anyway, I guess he has the ability to raise enough funds to hire enough people to write his own language within ~2 years so as not have to follow random peoples whim about where to take the language. So I guess I can't blame him. But as someone who's pretty invested in the Nim community it's quite a shame to see such a hyped language receive so much attention by people who should really check out Nim. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    [0]: https://youtu.be/pdJQ8iVTwj8?si=LfPSNDq8UKKIsJd3

    [1]: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

  • Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Aug 2023
    You can also do this in Nim, which basically means you can write any program you could in Python with libraries in Nim. https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Ones that have not been mentioned so far:

    nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

    npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg

    futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark

    nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

    questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable

    ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

    cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps

    chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos

    zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

    owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle

    A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.

  • Prospects of utilising Nim in scientific computation?
    3 projects | /r/nim | 3 Jun 2023
    I use Python daily for its massive momentum for scientific stuff, but I also use Nim for everything else. Nim compiles to C, and making Python native modules with Nim is easy with Nimpy.
  • Can't run compiled nim code in Python
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 28 May 2023
  • Returning to Nim from Python and Rust
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Feb 2023
    If are a data scientist and come from python take a look at nimpy, a great way to just import python libraries and use them! https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy Numpy, pandas, pytorch all usable in Nim.

    Nim is the ultimate glue language, use libraries from anything: python, c, js, objc.

  • Python's “Disappointing” Superpowers
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2023
    I've come to really enjoy programming in Nim. Note that Nim is very different language despite sharing a similar syntax. However, I feel it keeps a lot of the "feel" of Python 2 days of being a fairly simple neat language but that lets you do things at compile time (like compile time duck typing).

    There's a good Python -> Nim bridge: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

  • Dunder methods in nimpy
    2 projects | /r/nim | 3 Jan 2023
    See this nimpy issue about it: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy/issues/43
  • What language to move to from python to speed up algo?
    4 projects | /r/algotrading | 7 Dec 2022
    It has pretty good integration with python, either for having your main code in python and writing small hot functions as nim and importing via nimporter or using python libraries in nim via nimpy.
  • ABI compatibility in Python: How hard could it be?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Nov 2022
    Related: Nimpy[0] provides an easy way to write Python extensions in Nim, which manages the ABI side very well.

    Python 2 is now gone, but until it was, Nimpy was an easy way to write Python extension modules that only needed to be compiled once, and would work with any of your installed Python 2 and Python 3. Magic.

    [0] https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

What are some alternatives?

When comparing futhark and nimpy you can also consider the following projects:

c2nim - c2nim is a tool to translate Ansi C code to Nim. The output is human-readable Nim code that is meant to be tweaked by hand before and after the translation process.

Nim - Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).

nimporter - Compile Nim Extensions for Python On Import!

Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access

futhark - :boom::computer::boom: A data-parallel functional programming language

nimjl - A bridge between Nim-lang and Julia !

scinim - The core types and functions of the SciNim ecosystem

owlkettle - A declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4

nimpylib - Some python standard library functions ported to Nim

rnim - A bridge between R and Nim

nimskull - An in development statically typed systems programming language; with sustainability at its core. We, the community of users, maintain it.