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TypeScript
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Arraymancer
A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU and embedded devices via OpenMP, Cuda and OpenCL backends
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FrameworkBenchmarks
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
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Nim reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of Nim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-25.
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Choosing Nim out of a crowded market for systems programming languages
My issue is that Nim has some awkward problems with static linking:
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Man, Rust has me addicted!
Have you tried Nim? It's like Python syntax-wise but with static typing and compiles to C (then to assembly) / WASM / Javascript. It also has a garbage collector which you can disable and manage memory manually if you want.
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Using Go as a data engineer
By the way, I am personally experimenting with Nimlang though. The syntax is pretty close to Python, so I am liking it more than Go. But compared to Nim, Go is more suitable for production work in a team setting.
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Why I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit.
Hey, I am Andre and I work on internal analytics and data tools here at Reddit. I have worked at Reddit for five years and have used Nim nearly every day during that time. The internal data tool I am working on is written primarily in Nim. I have developed a tiny but powerful data querying language similar to SQL but that is way easier to use for non technical people. I also have written my own visualizations library that supports a variety of charts, graphs, funnels and word clouds. Everything is wrapped with a custom reactive UI layer that uses websockets to communicate with the cluster of data processing nodes on the backend. Everything is 100% Nim. I really enjoy working with Nim and have become a Nim fanatic.
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Just a quick question, can a programming language be as fast as C++ and efficient with as simple syntax like Python?
Nim. https://nim-lang.org/
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Javascript compilation: any type system ?
You might be looking for sourcemaps? https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/7508
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A Cost Model for Nim
I did some work on Nim's hash tables back in 2020, specifically with OrderedTable, comparable to a Python dict where insertion order is preserved. I stumbled on this table module in a roundabout way, via Nim's database module, db_sqlite. The db_sqlite module was much slower than Python for simple tests, and on investigation, I found that it didn't automatically handled prepared statement caching like Python's sqlite3 module. There were some other issues with db_sqlite, like blob handling and null handling, which led me to a different SQLite interface, tiny_sqlite. This was a big improvement, handling both nulls and blobs, and the developer was great to work with. But it also didn't support prepared statement caching. I filed an issue and he implemented it, using Nim's OrderedTable to simulate an LRU cache by adding a new prepared statement and deleting the oldest one if the cache was too big:
https://github.com/GULPF/tiny_sqlite/issues/3
Performance was hugely improved. There was another LRUCache implementation I played with, and when using that for the statement cache, performance was 25% faster than OrderedTable. That didn't make much sense to me for a 100-entry hash table, so I started running some tests comparing LRUCache and OrderedTable. What I discovered is that OrderedTable delete operations created an entirely new copy of the table, minus the entry being deleted, on every delete. That seemed pretty crazy, especially since it was already showing up as performance problems in a 100-entry table.
The tiny_sqlite developer switched to LRUCache, and I did some work on the OrderedTable implementation to make deletes O(1) as expected with hash table operations:
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/14995
After spending a lot of time on this, I finally gave up. The problems were:
- the JSON implementation used OrderedTables and never did deletes. JSON benchmark performance was rather sacred, so changing OrderedTables to be slightly slower/larger (I used a doubly-linked list) was not desirable, even if it changed delete performance from O(n) to O(1)
- the Nim compiler also used OrderedTables and never did deletes
- Nim tables allowed multiple values for the same key (I did help get that deprecated).
- alternatives were proposed by others that maintained insertion order until a deleted occurred, but then it could become unordered. That made no sense to me.
The TLDR is, if you use Nim tables, don't use OrderedTable unless you can afford to make an copy of the table on every deleted.
Current Nim OrderedTable delete code: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/15bffc20ed8da26e68c88bb...
Issue for db_sqlite not handling nulls, blobs, statement cache: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/13559
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Looking to help
https://github.com/topics/help-wanted https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim https://github.com/topics/c?l=c Hope this helps!
- Rust vs Golang: Coming from Python (I know technically it's not necessarily the right comparison)
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What’s Ruby used for most nowadays?
Part of this is partially because Python is "simple" and has very few language rules to learn. Thus teachers and managers gravitated towards Python, as it was easier to learn, teach, review, and already has a large community. However, the downside to this "simplicity" is that Python is very boring to write since it lacks many shortcuts, and so Python developers have to write more code than what Ruby developers would have to write. The same argument can also be applied to Golang vs. Rust/Nim/Crystal). Also, for a short period of time in the 2000s Google required all of their managers learn Python and contributed to it's development which helped make Python popular. However, Python is becoming over-saturated by programming bootcamps, and I feel like new programmers will eventually get bored of Python and start to explore other languages.
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