In reply to @bubblie "The more I think": well, it really can't unless you're
willing to predefine the network layout at compile time before ever reading the
HDF5 file. Note that this is no different from any other compiled language (i.e.
C++ ). It's just that languages like Python make this all seem "easy", because
things can just be constructed on the fly at runtime.
Once Nimony is stable, it _should_ (I believe) be easy enough to write a JIT
compiler for Nim and then _maybe_ this can become more dynamic. (Well, there's
nlvm's JIT compiler, but then you're bound to a specific LLVM version and fixed
version of Nim). But this is at least a year out, if we consider the need to
actually get all the related Nim packages working with Nimony (where currently
the macro module is likely the biggest hurdle)