Minimal Nim kernel for Jupyter

This is a rough adaptation of https://github.com/brendan-rius/jupyter-c-kernel . It's mostly functional, there are probably bugs lurking around.  

There's a nim based version, which I will be focusing work on, here : Inim  

Look at example-notebook for some examples.

NOTE: Context is NOT shared between blocks!! I'll try working on it when I have time.

Magics

Currently implemented magics are:

• #>loadblock <num> : load block num in the current block, automatically disables echo calls in loaded block.
  Partial workaround for sharing context.
• #>passflag <someflag> : pass a flag to the compiler, eg --verbosity:3, --d:openblas etc.
  Currently one flag per line

Prereqs

• a working nim installation ( download )
• a working jupyter (and python 3^) installation ( I recomend miniconda3 and adding jupyter with conda install jupyter )

Installation

• pip install jupyter_nim_kernel
• git clone https://github.com/stisa/jupyter-nim-kernel.git
• cd jupyter-nim-kernel
• jupyter-kernelspec install nim_spec/
• Done, now run jupyter-notebook and select new->Nim

Manual Installation

• git clone https://github.com/stisa/jupyter-nim-kernel.git
• cd jupyter-nim-kernel
• pip install -e .
• jupyter-kernelspec install nim_spec/
• Done, now run jupyter-notebook and select new->Nim

Note

Forked from https://github.com/brendan-rius/jupyter-c-kernel and adapted to work with nim.

This a simple proof of concept. It's not intended to be used in production in its current shape.

Known bugs

• The output is littered with Hint: [Processing]... statements
• Every block is treated as a separate file ( not really a bug, it's just not yet implemented )
• Others?

License

MIT

TODO

• have a look at implementing nimsuggest
• share context between blocks ( or at least procs, maybe an internal file that adds all procs and then is included before compilation? )
• snippets
• basic completion