README.md

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Awesome Nim

A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by other awesome lists.

Contents

Table of contents

• Async Processing
• Build Systems/Package Management
• Byte Size
• CheckSums
• Database
• Date Time
• Deep Learning
• Design
• Embedded
• Game Development
• GUI
• IDE
• Implementations
• Macros
• Package Repositories
• REPL
• Scripting
• Services
• Text Processing
  • Translation
  • Template Engines
• Web
  • Web Frameworks
  • Parsing HTML
  • Generating HTML
• Development Tools
  • Binding Generators
  • Command-Line Interface Automation
• Resources
  • Books
  • Blogs
  • Community
  • Websites
• Contributing

Async processing

• Nim-Asyncdispatch2 - Hard fork of Asyncdispatch. [MIT]

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Build Systems/Package Management

• ChooseNim - Installing and switching between Nim versions (à la rustup, pyenv). [MIT]
• Nake - Describe your Nim builds as tasks. [MIT]
• Nawabs - A build system that throws away version numbering in favor of git hashes. [MIT]
• Nimble - Nimble can be used as a build system. [BSD]

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Byte Size

• nim-bytes2human - Calculate all Byte units from an integer, with precision from Bytes to Yottabytes, and return a human friendly string representation. [LGPL]

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Checksums

• nim-crc32 - CRC32 for Nim, 2 proc, just pass the thing you want to do CRC. [MIT]

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Database

• ormin - Prepared SQL statement generator , A lightweight ORM.
• nimongo - Pure Nim lang MongoDB driver. http://sspkrolik.github.io/nimongo [MIT]

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Date Time

• nim-datetime2human - Calculate date & time with precision from seconds to millenniums. Human friendly date time as string. ISO-8601. [LGPL]

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Deep Learning

• Arraymancer - A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU, OpenCL and embedded devices. [Apache-2.0]
• NimTorch - PyTorch - Python + Nim. A Nim front-end to PyTorch's native backend, combining Nim's speed, productivity and portability with PyTorch's latest implementations. [MIT]

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Design

• nim-random-font-color - Random curated Fonts, pastel Colors and Seamless CSS3 Patterns for your UI/UX design, design for non-designers, poors man design. [LGPL]

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Embedded

• msp430f5510 - Run Nim on MSP430f5510 micro-controller (6KB of RAM).
• stm32f3 - Run Nim on STM32F3 micro-controller (16KB of RAM).
• ardunimo - Nim wrapper for Arduino + LinkIt ONE SDK by Mediatek.
• ardunimesp - Nim wrapper for Arduino ESP8266 framework + A tool for flash, compile and make the nim project into an Arduino project.

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Game Development

• frag - Cross-platform 2D|3D game framework for the Nim programming language. [MIT]
• zengine - 2D | 3D Game development library.
• SDL2 - Wrapper for SDL 2. [MIT]
• GLAD - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs. [MIT]
• nim-glm - Port of the popular glm C++ library to Nim. [MIT]

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GUI

• ui - Wrapper for IUP - Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library.
• nim-kdialog - Nim Kdialog Qt5 Wrapper for Desktop. [LGPL]
• nimAntTweakBar - Wrapper for AntTweakBar.
• nimx - Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim.
• NiGui - cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit [MIT]

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IDE

• Aporia - Text editor to get started with Nim easily (not maintained anymore).
• Editor Integration - Official list of editor plugins for Nim.
• Nim Playground - Code and run Nim online.

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Implementations

• Nim - Nim (formerly known as "Nimrod") is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nim's design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority). [MIT] website
• Nlvm - LLVM backend for Nim. [MIT]

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Macros

• cascade - Method & assignment cascades for Nim, inspired by Smalltalk & Dart. [MIT]
• gara - Macro-based pattern matching library. [MIT]
• pipe - Pipe operator for Nim, as seen in functional languages. [MIT]
• unpack - Sequence/object unpacking/destructuring. [MIT]

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Package Repositories

• Nim packages - List of packages for Nimble.
• Nim package directory - This service allows you to explore Nim packages known to Nimble. It tests package installation and generates documentation using "nim doc".

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REPL

• INim - Interactive Nim Shell. [MIT]

Scripting

• Nimcr - Running Nim code with Shebangs.

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Services

• Luntic - Lightweight REST in-memory discovery service. [Apache-2.0]

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Text Processing

• regex - Pure Nim regex engine with linear time match. [MIT]
• glob - Pure library for matching file paths against Unix style glob patterns. [MIT]
• nim-datauri - Data URI Base64 UTF-8. [LGPL]

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Translation

• nim-tinyslation - Text string translation from free online crowdsourced API. [LGPL]

Template Engines

• smalte - Is a dead simple and lightweight template engine. Specially designed for configure application before start in Docker. [MIT]

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Web

Web Frameworks

• Jester - The sinatra-like web framework for Nim. Jester provides a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Nim. [MIT]
• Karax - Framework for developing single page applications in Nim.
• nawak - Web micro-framework in Nimrod, heavily inspired by jester, flask and the like. [MIT]
• oauth - OAuth library for Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• rosencrantz - DSL to write web servers, inspired by Spray and its successor Akka HTTP.

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Parsing HTML

• Nimquery - Library for querying HTML using CSS selectors, like Javascript's document.querySelector. [MIT]

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Generating HTML

• HastyScribe - Self-contained markdown compiler generating self-contained HTML documents. https://h3rald.com/hastyscribe

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Development Tools

Binding Generators

• Nimpy - Gen Python wrappers, call python from nim. [MIT]
• Pymod - Gen Python C-API wrappers. [MIT]

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Command-Line Interface Automation

• cligen - Infer & generate command-line interace/option/argument parsers [MIT]
• docopt.nim - Command-line args parser [MIT]
• commandeer - Provides a small command line parsing DSL (domain specific language) [MIT]

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Resources

Books

• Nim in Action - Nim's first book
• Nim Days - A project to document my journey with nim with mini applications, libraries documented from A to Z and also to provide new Nim users with some extra in depth information.

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Blogs

• Nim Blog - Official Nim blog.
• Goran Krampe - Wrapping C, arduino, performance, links.
• HookRace - Blog with multiple articles on Nim.
• Rants from the Ballmer Peak - Posts on Nim and other languages.
• Yuriy Glukhov's blog - Making and shipping a game in Nim
• Araq's Musings - Blog on Nim from the creator himself.

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Community

• The Nim forum
• The Nim IRC channel
• The Nim Gitter channel
• The Nim mailing list
• The Nim SubReddit
• The Nim Telegram
• The Nim Telegram on Spanish

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Websites

• Nim Basics - Tutorial for beginners and people just starting with Nim.
• How I start - Great guide going from 0 to a bf interpreter and then a bf to Nim compiler.
• Learn Nim in Y minutes - Whirlwind tour.
• Nim by Example - Series of pages and examples for learning the Nim programming language.
• Nim for Python programmers - Guide to Nim for people with experience in Python.
• Rosettacode:Nim - 100s of solutions for various tasks using Nim (Implementations available in other languages as well).

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Contributing

Contributions are very welcome!

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.

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