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3149 :: Random idea - porting python 3 stdlib to Nim.

• wizzardx (orginal) [2017-09-06T10:38:54+02:00] view original

  Just a random brainfart.

  Would probably start by taking typeshed static type declarations for python builtins.

  String would probably be a wrapped unicode/runes string; bytes would be mainly native c bytes.

  Arbitrary precision int libgmp.

  There's already a lot of libs which bring python-like libs etc over to Nim.

  Resulting code would be totally none-idiomatic Nim and probably a lot slower.

  I'm not volunteering for this; just throwing out a totally random idea.

  Pretty terrible idea right? Lol.

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• evacchi (orginal) [2017-09-06T13:33:32+02:00] view original

  well, if you're objective is to try and appeal to the Python community, I think they might wonder what's the benefit of using Nim rather than,say, Cython, which maps more closely to "real" Python

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• Tiberium (orginal) [2017-09-06T13:39:05+02:00] view original

  https://github.com/Yardanico/nimpylib :D

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• wizzardx (orginal) [2017-09-07T07:36:34+02:00] view original

  Thanks for those replies!

  @evacchi, you're absolutely right; thanks for the reminder re cython.

  @Tiberium, I'll probably be using nimpylib a fair amount in the future, maybe sending a pull request here and there :-)

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• evacchi (orginal) [2017-09-07T09:11:13+02:00] view original

  @evacchi, you're absolutely right; thanks for the reminder re cython.

  hey nothing against what you're doing, but remember a strong motivation (same applies to nimpylib) :-)

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