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nimpy
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Mojo is now available on Mac
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
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Show HN: Pip Imports in Deno
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
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Nim v2.0 Released
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.
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Prospects of utilising Nim in scientific computation?
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
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Returning to Nim from Python and Rust
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.
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Python's “Disappointing” Superpowers
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
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Dunder methods in nimpy
See this nimpy issue about it: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy/issues/43
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What language to move to from python to speed up algo?
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.
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ABI compatibility in Python: How hard could it be?
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
RFCs
- Nim Sum types, 2024 variant
- Nim Roadmap 2024 and Beyond
- Nim v2.0 Released
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Contribute to the Python-like Nim language
compiler support for object construction shorthand
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Nim 2.0.0 RC2
Well, maybe not writing. Occasionally low-level C libraries - especially those that deal with keyboard input - decide to provide identifiers differing only in case... There's a WIP RFC for providing a way to deal with identifiers that need to be verbatium by surrounding them with backticks, though.
https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/477
- please comment on "It totally sounds like the n-word" as well
- Nim goto intermediate representation (NGIR)
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My Nim Development Weekly Report (3/12)
Following The Roadmap 2023 for community building , you could join us in the matrix space where we discuss how to build a community. We appreciate doable suggestions and helps, such as improving the workflow, implementing the roadmap, suggesting doable tasks, reviewing code from contributors. United we stand. We shall work together to make the community thrive.
- Nim Roadmap 2023
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My Nim Development Weekly Report (2/19)
First of all, the Nim development follows The Roadmap 2023, which specifies what features might be implemented or removed in 2023. As we can see, completing incremental compilation and recursive module dependencies might be the most important tasks to be done in 2023. You might subscribe to the roadmap and write down your expectations of Nim in 2023 there.
What are some alternatives?
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).
nimskull - An in development statically typed systems programming language; with sustainability at its core. We, the community of users, maintain it.
Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access
nimforum - Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
nimporter - Compile Nim Extensions for Python On Import!
nim-chronos - Chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming
scinim - The core types and functions of the SciNim ecosystem
nimpylib - Some python standard library functions ported to Nim
shady - Nim to GPU shader language compiler and supporting utilities.
cligen - Nim library to infer/generate command-line-interfaces / option / argument parsing; Docs at