> scientists are also using Python and for any kind of data munching, a repl > and a data visualization package are non-negotiable.
As a (wannabe) scientist, I can confirm. Jupyter Notebooks are the tool of trade and they are very very helpful when prototyping. I was pleasantly surprised when I recently tried Julia and I have used both its REPL and IJulia kernel for Notebooks. If Nim can get REPL, that would be huge!! * * * As for visualizations - Python's matplotlib is very powerful, but it has an ugly API (because of wanting to please both Matlab crowd and us normal people), and I'm yearning for "simple and sane matplotlib". I've seen some visualization libraries for Nim, but they seemed very basic - I haven't tried them yet as I'm not sure I could use them (easily) for something more complicated than basic line plots.
