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by zero0529 303 days ago
What a low effort article. I have done some programming in Nim. It’s a nice language but I felt frustrated whenever I wanted to do something I knew I could do in python but that didn’t work in Nim. I just missed some of the syntactic sugar of python, that being said I would love to get back into Nim again.
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You know what, I mostly do python, but then had to get quite high performance on some lib. Converting to Nim and importing with nimpy has been a blast. The result is just one more python module, colleagues don't get frightened when they see the code, it's just seamless and nifty. I much prefer it to Cython.
Can you provide some examples if you still remember?
If I remember correctly it was when working with collections but I can’t remember a concrete example though. Their std library is by no means bad it is just different enough from python to hurt my productivity. My initial motivation for chosing Nim was because I was doing an algorithm course at the time and I wanted to archive fastest runtimes in shortest amount of code