Nim programming language finally hit 1.0

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 27 September 2019 at 14:43:32 UTC, Chris wrote:
> Not the real deal. People always return to Matlab.

Probably, the problem is when you try to run models written by 
others and they use rarely used Matlab functions.

>> Btw, I think most people need a very compelling reason to 
>> switch to a new language.
>
> Three compelling reasons: performance, performance and 
> performance. :)

Right, but it is likely to come in the form of kernels that 
compiles to OpenCL for numerics. So, new libraries that can run 
on the GPU, but is controlled from Python.