Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future

Re:Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future by vegabook on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:54PM (#10429991)

Can we realistically expect a competent, officially supported REPL for Nim over time? I would be immediately sold if this otherwise very promising looking language could remove this obstacle.

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Re:Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future by pathsjs on Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:13AM (#10430993)

I certainly hope so. It is of course the biggest missing element in sight, but I do not think we will see anything before 1.0 comes out

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Re:Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future by TylerE on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:37PM (#10430120)

What's wrong with `nim i`? That's a repl, and it's hardly possible to get more official than that

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Re:Nim for scientific computing: Back to the future by perturbation on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:23PM (#10430231)

It's been removed* - provided a bad UX for people coming into Nim since it doesn't support C extensions / importing of modules that use C extensions, which can be a fair bit. If you try to use them regardless, it's easy to crash the REPL.

* It's not entirely removed, just obfuscated so that if needed it can be still used as long as you "know what you're doing" and are willing to put up with it not being a general purpose REPL. Use

nim secret

to run it.

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