Re: lapack solver

[dom96]

I'm currently working with Pandas/Matplotlib in Python. They are very good 
libraries and I would love to see them wrapped in Nim. So for what it's worth, 
you have my support :)

Re: lapack solver

[andrea]

@smitty Well, at first I suggest that you try what is working in 
[linalg](https://github.com/unicredit/linear-algebra) and let me know what you 
don't like or what is not clear in the documentation (I know, they should be 
expanded and there should be a tutorial as well). :)

>From there, there are a lot of things to do. A few of them are documented in 
>the [TODO](https://github.com/unicredit/linear-algebra#todo), but here are 
>some others:

  * add support for complex linear algebra
  * add Fourier transform via FFTW



Then one could build other things on top of linalg, probably in other packages 
- for instance

  * neural networks
  * clustering algorithms
  * regression algorithms



and so on.

Also, another thing may be to work out some statically typed analogue of 
dataframes, to have something like Pandas in the Nim world

I will soon be on holidays until about mid September, but I'd be happy to give 
any help about the internals of the library

Re: lapack solver

[smitty]

@andrea sure, where to start? I'd like to see nimlibs for scipy, pandas and 
matplotlib (perhaps wrapping plplot). The prospect is daunting :)

Re: lapack solver

[andrea]

For anyone interested, there is some [solver 
functionality](https://github.com/unicredit/linear-algebra/blob/master/tests/funcs.nim)
 via lapack in 
[linalg](http://forum.nim-lang.org///unicredit.github.io/linear-algebra/).

@smitty Would you be interested in contributing? :)