Awesome Nim

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A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries and software.

Contents

Table of contents

• Async IO
• Threading
• Build Systems/Package Management
• System API
• Web API
• Cryptographic
• Parsers
• Serialization
• Database
  • Driver
  • ORM
• Date Time
• Benchmarking
• Random
• Data Processing
• Image
• Audio
• Math
  • Symbolic
  • FFT
  • Vector
  • Matrix
• Deep Learning
• Design
• Embedded
• Game Development
• Logging
• Window
• UI
• GUI
• Plot
• Terminal
• Editor
• Implementations
• Macros
• Package Repositories
• REPL
• Scripting
• Services
• IO
• Tests
• Text Processing
  • Translation
  • Template Engines
• Web
  • UDP
  • RPC
  • MQTT
  • HTTP server
  • Websocket
  • Web Frameworks
  • Parsing HTML
• Markdown
• Development Tools
  • Binding Generators
  • Command-Line Interface Automation
• Resources
  • Books
  • Blogs
  • Community
  • Websites
  • Videos
• Contributing

Async IO

• nim-chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming. [MIT]
• cps - Continuation-Passing Style for Nim. [MIT]

Threading

• weave - A state-of-the-art multithreading runtime: message-passing based, fast, scalable, ultra-low overhead. [MIT/Apache-2.0]

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]
• nimph - Nim package hierarchy manager from the future. [MIT]
• nimby - Nimby is a very simple and unofficial package manager for nim language.

System API

• winim - Nim's Windows API and COM Library. [MIT]

Web API

• telebot.nim - Async client for Telegram Bot API in pure Nim. [MIT]
• dimscord - A Discord Bot & REST Library for Nim. [MIT]
• nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end. [AGPL]

Cryptographic

• nimcrypto - Nim cryptographic library. [MIT]
• nimAES - Advanced Encryption Standard, Rinjdael Algorithm written in Nim.
• nim-crc32 - CRC32 for Nim, 2 proc, just pass the thing you want to do CRC. [MIT]

Parsers

• parsetoml - A Nim library to parse TOML files. [MIT]
• NimYAML - YAML implementation for Nim. [MIT]

Serializtion

• nim-toml-serialization - Flexible TOML serialization [not] relying on run-time type information. [MIT/Apache-2.0]
• nim-serialization - A modern and extensible serialization framework for Nim. [MIT/Apache-2.0]
• frosty - Marshal native Nim objects via streams, sockets. [MIT]
• nim-protobuf-serialization - nim-protobuf-serialization. [MIT/Apache-2.0]
• protobuf-nim - Protobuf implementation in pure Nim that leverages the power of the macro system to not depend on any external tools. [MIT]

Database

Driver

• nimongo - Pure Nim lang MongoDB driver. [MIT]
• asyncpg - Asynchronous PostgreSQL driver for Nim language. [MIT]
• anonimongo - Another Nim pure Mongo DB driver. [MIT]

ORM

• ormin - Prepared SQL statement generator , A lightweight ORM.
• nim-allographer - A query_builder/ORM library inspired by Laravel/PHP and Orator/Python for Nim. [MIT]
• nim-gatabase - Connection-Pooling Compile-Time ORM for Nim. [MIT]
• norm - Norm is an object-oriented, framework-agnostic ORM for Nim that supports SQLite and PostgreSQL.

Date Time

• nim-datetime2human - Calculate date & time with precision from seconds to millenniums. Human friendly date time as string. ISO-8601. [LGPL]
• timezones - Nim timezone library compatible with the standard library. [MIT]

Benchmarking

• golden - A benchmark for compile-time and/or runtime Nim. [MIT]
• timeit - Measuring execution times written by Nim. [MIT]
• criterion - Statistic-driven micro-benchmark framework.

Random

• nim-random - Random number generation library for Nim. [MIT]
• sysrandom.nim - A Nim library to generate random numbers and random ranges of bytes using the system's PRNG. [BSD-3]

Data Processing

• NimData - DataFrame API written in Nim, enabling fast out-of-core data processing. [MIT]

Image

• nimPNG - PNG (Portable Network Graphics) decoder and encoder written in Nim. [MIT]
• nimpdf - PDF document writer, written in nim lang. [MIT]
• NimSvg - Nim-based DSL allowing to generate SVG files and GIF animations.
• inumon - A high-level image I/O and manipulation library for Nim. [MPL]

Audio

• paramidi - A Nim library for making MIDI music. [Unlicense]

Math

Symbolic

• symbolicnim - A symbolic library written purely in Nim. [MIT]

FFT

• impulse - Impulse will be a collection of primitives for signal processing (FFT, Convolutions, ...). [MIT/Apache-2.0]

Vector

• vectorize - SIMD vectorization backend. [MIT/Apache-2.0]
• vmath - Math vector library for graphical things.

Matrix

• neo - A matrix library. [Apache-2.0]

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]

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]
• chroma - Everything you want to do with colors, in nim. [MIT]
• typography - Fonts, Typesetting and Rasterization. [MIT]
• trick - Library for GBA/NDS image conversion, and more! [Zlib]

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.

Game Development

• frag - 3D Game Engine. [MIT]
• nico - Nim Game Framework based on Pico-8. [MIT]
• nimgame2 - A simple 2D game engine for Nim language. [MIT]
• godot-nim - Nim bindings for Godot Engine. [MIT]
• rod - Cross-platform game engine. [MIT]
• natu - Toolkit for writing Game Boy Advance games in Nim. [Zlib]
• nimgl - NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics. [MIT]
• SDL2 - Wrapper for SDL 2. [MIT]
• rapid - A game engine written in Nim, optimized for rapid game development and prototyping. [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]
• enu - A Logo-like DSL for Godot, implemented in Nim. [MIT]

Logging

• nim-chronicles - A crafty implementation of structured logging for Nim. [MIT/Apache 2.0]

Windows

• nimdow - A window manager written in Nim. [GPL]
• Nimwin - A Very Simple X11 Window Manager.

UI

• ui - Wrapper for IUP - Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library.
• fidget - Figma based UI library for nim, with HTML and OpenGL backends.

GUI

• nimAntTweakBar - Wrapper for AntTweakBar.
• nimx - Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim.
• NiGui - cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit. [MIT]
• wNim - Nim's Windows GUI Framework. [MIT]
• nimqml - Qt Qml bindings for the Nim programming language. [LGPL]
• webgui - Web Technologies based Crossplatform GUI Framework with Dark theme. [MIT]
• gintro - High level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim language. [MIT]
• nsciter - High-level and low-level Nim wrapper for https://sciter.com. [MIT]

Plot

• ggplotnim - A port of ggplot2 for Nim. [MIT]
• nim-plotly - plotting library for nim-lang. [MIT]
• graph - A basic plotting lib in nim.
• npainter -Semi GPU-Accelerated painting software written in Nim. [Apache-2.0]

Terminal

• NimCx - Color and Utilities for the Linux Terminal. [MIT]
• nicy - A nice and icy zsh and bash prompt in Nim. [MIT]

Editor

• moe - Command line based editor. [GPL]
• paravim - A Vim-based editor for Nim. [Unlicense]
• nim-noise - Nim implementation of linenoise command line editor. [MIT]
• editor - A simple text editor written in Nim. [MIT]
• 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.

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]

Macros

• with - with macro for Nim.
• macroutils - A package that makes creating macros easier.
• cascade - Method & assignment cascades for Nim, inspired by Smalltalk & Dart. [MIT]
• pipe - Pipe operator for Nim, as seen in functional languages. [MIT]
• unpack - Sequence/object unpacking/destructuring. [MIT]
• nimacros - Documentation for Nim Macros.

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".

REPL

• INim - Interactive Nim Shell. [MIT]
• jupyternim - A Jupyter kernel for nim. [MIT]

Scripting

• Nimcr - Running Nim code with Shebangs.
• nimr - Run nim programs like scripts.

Services

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

IO

• ioselectors - ioselectors plus for Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• wepoll - Windows epoll wrapper for Nim. [MIT]
• nim-faststreams - Nearly zero-overhead input/output streams for Nim. [MIT/Apache-2.0]
• lockfreequeues - Lock-free queue implementations for Nim. [MIT]

Tests

• testes - A small unittest framework with decent support. [MIT]

Text Processing

• regex - Pure Nim regex engine with linear time match. [MIT]
• npeg - PEGs for Nim, another take. [MIT]
• patty - A pattern matching library for Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• gara - Macro-based pattern matching library. [MIT]
• glob - Pure library for matching file paths against Unix style glob patterns. [MIT]
• nim-datauri - Data URI Base64 UTF-8. [LGPL]

Translation

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

Template Engines

• smalte - It is a dead simple and lightweight template engine. Specially designed for configure application before start in Docker. [MIT]
• nim-html-dsl - Nim HTML DSL. [MIT]
• nim-templates - A simple string templating library for Nim. [BSD-3]

Web

UDP

• netty - Reliable UDP connection library for games in Nim.

RPC

• nim-json-rpc - Nim library for implementing JSON-RPC clients and servers. [MIT/Apache-2.0]

MQTT

• nmqtt - Native Nim MQTT client library. [MIT]

HTTP server

• httpx - Cross platform web server for Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• httpbeast - A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server written in Nim. [MIT]
• GuildenStern - Genuinely multithreading integrated HTTP/1.1 + WebSocket v13 Server for POSIX-compliant OSes. [MIT]
• netkit - Out-of-the-box, stable and secure network facilities and utilities written by pure Nim. [MIT]

Websocket

• websocket.nim - Websockets for nim. [MIT]
• ws - Simple WebSocket library for nim. [MIT]
• news - Nim easy web socket. [MIT]

Web Frameworks

• Jester - The sinatra-like web framework for Nim. Jester provides a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Nim. [MIT]
• prologue - Full-Stack Web Framework written in Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• rosencrantz - DSL to write web servers, inspired by Spray and its successor Akka HTTP.
• whip - Simple fast http server for nim based on httpbeast and nest for high performance routing.
• basolato - A fullstack web framework for Nim based on Jester.
• Karax - Framework for developing single page applications in Nim.
• oauth - OAuth library for Nim. [Apache-2.0]
• nim_websitecreator - Nim fullstack website framework - deploy a website within minutes. [PPL]

Parsing HTML

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

Markdown

• HastyScribe - Self-contained markdown compiler generating self-contained HTML documents.
• nim-markdown - A Beautiful Markdown Parser in the Nim World. [MIT]

Development Tools

Binding Generators

• Nimpy - Gen Python wrappers, call python from nim. [MIT]
• nimterop - Nimterop is a Nim package that aims to make C/C++ interop seamless. [MIT]
• c2nim - c2nim is a tool to translate Ansi C code to Nim. [MIT]
• jnim - Nim - Java bridge. [MIT]

Command-Line Interface Automation

• cligen - Infer & generate command-line interace/option/argument parsers. [MIT]
• docopt.nim - Command-line args parser. [MIT]
• nim-argparse - Argument parsing for Nim. [MIT]

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.
• Nimbus Handbook - A comprehensive introduction to the Nim programming language.

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.

Community

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

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).
• dev - Nim blogs in dev.io.

Videos

• Nim official Channel - Official videos introduce the powerful and interesting part in Nim language.
• Nim for beginners - This is a video series meant to teach people programming in Nim to people who have never programmed before, or are new to Nim.
• Make a website with Nim - This is a video series meant to teach people make a website with Nim using jester.
• araq twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• alehander42 twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• clyybber twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• d0m96 twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• disruptek twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• yardanico twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
• zachary_carter twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome!

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING for guidelines.