Is Nim right for me?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/nim

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  • Datamancer

    A dataframe library with a dplyr like API

  • Check out Datamancer for your Pandas equivalent. If I recall correctly it does have the ability to read/write csv. If that doesn't suite you, there is a Python/Nim bridge called Nimpy. I do a lot of machine learning projects and have to use OpenCV and some other things from python because it doesn't exist yet. It's a pretty damn cool library.

  • Eel

    A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps

  • I came from a Python background with similar reasons. In fact, I was using the Python Eel library for my GUI and Pyinstaller for packaging. One of the biggest reasons I looked for other solutions was because even though the apps I made were small- Pyinstaller was slow as hell. Taking 20-30 seconds just to unpack all of the files and run the app. Insane.

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  • Neel

    A Nim library for making Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Nim capabilities.

  • I made the Nim equivalent to Python's Eel library called Neel. There are other GUI libraries out there but this is about as simple as it gets. It's only dependency is having chrome installed on your machine. Write your frontend in javascript (or just use Nim and compile to javascript) and backend in Nim. The executables are fast and extremely tiny. It'll embed your assets into the binary too so no dependency/linking BS. If you're on Mac, you can package it into an App too rather than just the executable. See the repo for more details.

  • nimpy

    Nim - Python bridge

  • Check out Datamancer for your Pandas equivalent. If I recall correctly it does have the ability to read/write csv. If that doesn't suite you, there is a Python/Nim bridge called Nimpy. I do a lot of machine learning projects and have to use OpenCV and some other things from python because it doesn't exist yet. It's a pretty damn cool library.

  • godot-nim

    Nim bindings for Godot Engine

  • It uses a python-like language, is free & open-source (MIT License), has a fantastic GUI creation system, exports to all major OS's, and produces single small binaries. You could eventually incorporate Nim as well, as there are Nim bindings for Godot.

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