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I use Nim instead of Python for data processing (2021)
Lazy programmers often prefer to substitute computing effort for programming effort.
Consider the following simple problem: you have a bunch of DNA sequences (strings which are comprised of four letters, A, T, G, and C), stored in a text file with> delimited comment lines ( i.e. FASTA format). A nice feature of the lines function is that it automatically strips newline characters such as LF and CRLF so we no longer need to do line.rstrip(). I have used Nim regularly for the past year as a daily driver and continue to be impressed by its performance, simplicity, and elegance.
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