Top all-time · #17645
Robert McDermott
Personal blog · robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/postsprogramming
Robert McDermott's personal blog at robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io covers programming. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Speeding up Python with Nim”. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on speeding up Python by writing extension modules in Nim, using the nimpy library and calling C from Nim, usually in threads about Python performance and Nim.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Random Technical Stuff
Most-linked posts?
- Speeding up Python with Nim4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-01-21
What Hacker News says?
Nim has an automated generator for C/C++ wrappers or translating from C. Also there are very easy ways to create Python modules in Nim: https://robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/posts/speeding-up-python-... https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
Comment linking /posts/speeding-up-python-with-nim/
on “Want to call C from Python? Use D”Submitted Speeding up Python with Nim as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI hear you. For me it makes compiled languages fun again. I like rust but package maintenance gets rough. Things like this are what I'm enjoying discovering: https://robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/posts/speeding-up-python-...
Comment linking /posts/speeding-up-python-with-nim/
on “Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language”Actually it is possible, Nim compiles to C and is a viable alternative to CPython. nimpy https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy PyGotham talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgNVJdizHg another blog post: https://robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/posts/speeding-up-python-...
Comment linking /posts/speeding-up-python-with-nim/
on “Python programming: We want to make the language twice as fast, says its creator”