I'm intrigued by Nim after browsing through some of the basic tutorials. Looks quite straightforward to get started. As with other languages I look at, for my use-cases it's important for me to understand0 if scientific packages are available and if there's a "scientific computing ecosystem".

I had a look through the `packages.json` [1] listing for Nimble [2] and couldn't really spot the maths packages that I'd need, e.g., numerical integration, optimization, linear algebra. Given that I can't find any of those, I'm guessing there aren't any physics packages either e.g., Newtonian mechanics, physical constants etc. Maybe maths libraries are available as ports to e.g., Eigen, NLOPT etc.?

Can anyone that is more familiar with the community comment on the potential of Nim as a language for scientific computing, in contrast to e.g., Julia?

[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/packages/blob/master/packages.js...

[2] https://github.com/nimrod-code/nimble

[3] http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

[4] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/NLopt

EDIT: Fixed typos