Curious what the thoughts are on this:
https://github.com/seq-lang/seq https://seq-lang.org/index.html#
I'm not sure what it provides over nim other than
It looks nice, seems a bit early to give a full review about it.
Nim does have better C interop, but I seqlang might be handy as a DSL-ish thing? Especially since Nim can be a "big" language for starting bioinformatics.
In other words, Nim's basic design has been confirmed once again by an "independent source".
Most bioinformaticians use Linux, if not all. If they use Windows they most likely heavily use WSL for their work. So Seq not working on Windows isn't a pressing issue (albeit Nim's support for platforms is a big boon).
Seq lowers the bar for starting bioinformaticians and provides a drop-in replacement for Python. Nim is a lot more mature and it's awesome, but I think Seq(or Python/Julia for that matter) vs Nim boils down on how easy it is to jump into the data science/processing ecosystem of the programming language. Julia is going strong in this regard and Nim is catching up thanks to wonderful work being done!
Julia is going strong in this regard and Nim is catching up thanks to wonderful work being done!
Julia is very far behind R and Python on statistics and data science. Julia strong ecosystem seems to be in anything involving differential equations (physics, fluid dynamics, ...) but in data science it's very lacking.
Oh, I thought with the release of 1.0 it got a lot of eyes. It is very frequently (including this one) name-dropped in data science discussions, but I'll keep the current ecosystem in mind.
Catching up to R AND Python in data science is a very high bar to clear though.