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[–] jim_stark@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Doesn't MacOS have homebrew that takes care of these things?

[–] itadakimasu@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

No issue setting up Nim itself (and I realize my complaint is not fault to Nim itself) but it would be great if this complimentary jupyter kernel for Nim would work on MacOS... Hasn't been maintained in a while: https://github.com/stisa/jupyternim/issues/38

Would be very useful for my workflow as someone who wants to explore Nim for data science-y type tasks.

Anyone know of an alternative Nim jupyter kernel?

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure about MacOS plus it's not REPL (sorry if that is key), but have you tried faster compilers for prototyping? Such as TCC (Bellard's Tiny C Compiler) as long as performance isn't critical and if you don't need multi-threading.

Clang is also pretty good (for a simple benchmark, the result I got was that Clang with opt:size gives similar performance to plain GCC but with half the compile time). (nlvm is also a thing but I have no idea how that'd compare even to Nim compiling code via Clang)

With some setup, maybe some form of hot code reloading?

[–] itadakimasu@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I definitely need to explore more options. Thanks for the suggestions!

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