awesome-nim

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)

nlvm

LLVM backend for Nim

cpython

Python standard library for Nim

Node.js

Node.js standard library for Nim

Nim packages

List of packages for Nimble

Explore Nim packages known to Nimble

moe

A vim-like editor made with Nim, also supports C, Rust, Javascript, etc

Nev

A keyboard focused GUI and terminal text editor

Code and run Nim online

An alternative implementation of the Nim playground

Async/await implementation in Nim's stdlib (aka asyncdispatch)

chronos

An efficient library for asynchronous programming

cps

Continuation-Passing Style for Nim

malebolgia

A powerful library in Nim that simplifies the implementation of concurrent and parallel programming

weave

A state-of-the-art multithreading runtime: message-passing based, fast, scalable, ultra-low overhead

timerpool

Threadsafe timerpool implementation for event purposes

taskpools

Lightweight, energy-efficient, easily auditable threadpools

shared

A Nim library for shared types

synthesis

A compiletime, procedure-based, low-overhead, no-allocation, state-machine generator optimized for communicating processes and threads

sync

Useful synchronization primitives

A thread safe logging library using Nim's own logging module

result

Friendly, exception-free value-or-error returns, similar to Option[T]

questionable

Elegant optional types for Nim

optionsutils

Utility macros for easier handling of options in Nim

contracts

Used to make contracts - elegant promises that pieces of code will fulfill certain conditions

contra

Lightweight and fast self-documenting design by contract programming

oop_utils

Nim macros for building OOP class hierarchies

interfaced

Interfaces for Nim

traitor

A macro heavy trait library made from boredom

classes

Python-style class system for Nim

classy

Haskell-style typeclasses for Nim

cascade

Method & assignment cascades for Nim, inspired by Smalltalk & Dart

nimfp

Nim functional programming library

nim-pipexp

Expression-based pipe operators with placeholder argument for Nim

pipe

Pipe operator for Nim, as seen in functional languages

zero-functional

A library providing (almost) zero-cost chaining for functional abstractions in Nim

regex

Pure Nim regex engine with linear time match

npeg

PEGs for Nim, another take

patty

A pattern matching library for Nim

gara

Macro-based pattern matching library

glob

Pure library for matching file paths against Unix style glob patterns

ast_pattern_match

A library to do pattern matching on the AST

awk

A library of awk functions in Nim

tinyre

A tiny regex engine based on Rob Pike's VM implementation

iterrr

Macros-based functional-style, lazy-like, extensible iterator library

itertools

Nim rewrite of a very popular Python module of the same name

loopfusion

Iterate efficiently over a variadic number of containers

looper

For loop macros for Nim

Attempt at a streaming library

macroutils

A package that makes creating macros easier

nimacros

Documentation for Nim macros

unpack

Sequence/object unpacking/destructuring

with

The macro for Nim

memo

Memoization for Nim

winim

Nim's Windows API and COM Library

serial

A Nim library for accessing serial ports

tempdir

A Nim library to create and manage temporary directories

nimbluez

Nim modules for access to system Bluetooth resources

Epoll/Kqueue/Select implementation in Nim's stdlib

ioselectors

The ioselectors plus for Nim

wepoll

Windows epoll wrapper for Nim

faststreams

Nearly zero-overhead input/output streams for Nim

lockfreequeues

Lock-free queue implementations for Nim

psutil

A port of Python's psutil to Nim

shell

A mini Nim DSL to execute shell commands more conveniently

schedules

A Nim scheduler library that lets you kick off jobs at regular intervals

daemon

Cross-platform process daemonization library for the Nim language

datetime2human

Calculate date & time with precision from seconds to millenniums. Human friendly date time as string. ISO-8601

timezones

Nim timezone library compatible with the standard library

chrono

A timestamps, calendars, and timezones library

random

Random number generation library for Nim, inspired by Python's "random" module

sysrandom.nim

A Nim library to generate random numbers and random ranges of bytes using the system's PRNG

alea

Define and compose random variables

drand48

Nim implementation of the standard Unix drand48 random number generator

nimcr

Running Nim code with Shebangs

nimr

Run Nim programs like scripts

A portable wrapper for borg and restic

nimvisa

Wrapper for NI-VISA instrument control library

ftd2xx

Wrapper for FTDI ftd2xx library (USB to JTAG/SPI/I2C/Bitbang etc.)

ratel

Next-generation, zero-cost abstraction microconroller programming in Nim

ardunimo

Nim wrapper for Arduino + LinkIt ONE SDK by Mediatek

Nim wrapper for Arduino ESP8266 framework + A tool for flashing, compiling and making a Nim project into an Arduino project

Run Nim on MSP430f5510 micro-controller (6KB of RAM)

Nesper

Program the ESP32 using Nim. Library on top of esp-idf

stm32f3

Run Nim on STM32F3 micro-controller (16KB of RAM)

boneIO

GPIO implementation for the BeagleBone Black for Nim

units

Statically-typed quantity units library for the Nim language

unchained

A fully type safe, compile time only units library

metric

A small library providing type-level dimensional analysis

orbits

Orbital mechanics library for Nim

qex

High-level framework for lattice field operations

nimongo

Pure Nim lang MongoDB driver

asyncpg

Asynchronous PostgreSQL driver for Nim

anonimongo

Another Nim pure Mongo DB driver

redis

Official redis wrapper for Nim

amysql

Async MySQL Connector write in pure Nim

mycouch

Multisync CouchDB driver for Nim

SQLiteral

A high level SQLite API for Nim

asyncmysql

Asynchronous MySQL connector written in pure Nim

sqlcipher

SQLCipher wrapper

litestore

A lightweight, self-contained, RESTful, searchable, multi-format NoSQL document store

rocksdb

Nim wrapper for RocksDB, a persistent key-value store for flash and RAM Storage

ormin

Prepared SQL statement generator , A lightweight ORM

allographer

A query_builder/ORM library inspired by Laravel/PHP and Orator/Python for Nim

gatabase

Connection-Pooling Compile-Time ORM for Nim

norm

Norm is an object-oriented, framework-agnostic ORM for Nim that supports SQLite and PostgreSQL

BitVector

A high-performance Nim implementation of BitVectors

rbtree

A Red/Black tree implementation in Nim

quadtree

A Quadtree library for Nim

kdtree

A pure Nim k-d tree implementation for efficient spatial querying of point data

RTree

Generic R-tree implementation for Nim

sorta

SortedTables in Nim, based on B-trees

minmaxheap

A Nim implementation of a Minimum-Maximum heap

BipBuffer

A Nim implementation of Simon Cooke's Bib Buffer

bloom

Bloom filter implementation in Nim

binaryheap

Simple binary heap implementation in Nim

faststack

Dynamically resizable data structure for fast iteration over large arrays of similar elements

StashTable

Concurrent hash tables for Nim

NimData

DataFrame API written in Nim, enabling fast out-of-core data processing

Datamancer

A dataframe library with a dplyr like API

nimdataframe

Dataframe for Nim

nimhdf5

Wrapper and some simple high-level bindings for the HDF5 library for Nim

mpfit

A wrapper for the cMPFIT library for Nim

parsetoml

A Nim library to parse TOML files

NimYAML

YAML implementation for Nim

Binarylang

Extensible Nim DSL for creating binary parsers/encoders in a symmetric fashion

serialization

A modern and extensible serialization framework for Nim

json-serialization

Flexible JSON serialization not relying on run-time type information

protobuf-serialization

The nim-protobuf-serialization

ssz-serialization

Nim implementation of Simple Serialize (SSZ) serialization and merkleization

toml-serialization

Flexible TOML serialization relying on run-time type information

frosty

Marshal native Nim objects via streams, sockets

protobuf-nim

Protobuf implementation in pure Nim that leverages the power of the macro system to not depend on any external tools

flatty

Tools and serializer for plain flat binary files

NESM is a tool that generates serialization and deserialization code for a given object

bingo

Binary serialization framework for Nim

isocodes

ISO codes for Nim (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-2, ISO 3166-3, ISO 15924, ISO 15924, ISO 639-2, ISO 639-5)

ssostrings

Small String Optimized (SSO) string implementation

cowstrings

Copy-On-Write string implementation according to nim-lang/RFCs#221

tinyslation

Text string translation from free online crowdsourced API

HastyScribe

Self-contained markdown compiler generating self-contained HTML documents

markdown

A beautiful Markdown Parser in the Nim world

lester

Create quick documents out of Markdown, into HTML

paramidi

A Nim library for making MIDI music

omni

A DSL for low-level audio programming

wave

A tiny WAV sound module

parasound

A library to provide Nim bindings for miniaudio and dr_wav

jacket

A Nim wrapper for the libjack C library to write clients for the JACK audio server

pixie

A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim

nimpng

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) decoder and encoder written in Nim

nimbmp

BMP decoder and encoder written in Nim

nimsvg

A Nim-based DSL allowing generation of SVG files and GIF animations

pnm

Library for PNM (Portable Anymap) in Nim

nimpdf

PDF document writer, written in Nim

symbolicnim

A symbolic library written purely in Nim

impulse

Impulse will be a collection of primitives for signal processing (FFT, Convolutions)

vectorize

SIMD vectorization backend

vmath

Math vector library for graphical things

neo

A matrix library

manu

Nim MAtrix NUmeric package - a port of JAMA, adapted to Nim

nlopt

A wrapper for the nonlinear optimization library Nlopt

Arraymancer

A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU, OpenCL and embedded devices

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

laser

Carefully-tuned primitives for running tensor and image-processing code on CPU, GPUs and accelerators

bigints

Bigints for Nim

stint

Stack-based arbitrary-precision integers. Fast and portable with natural syntax for resource-restricted devices

theo

An optimized bigint and number theory library for Nim

nimcrypto

Nim cryptographic library

hashlib

Hash library that contains almost all the hash functions for Nim

nimaes

Advanced Encryption Standard, Rinjdael Algorithm written in Nim

constantine

Constant time pairing-based of elliptic curve based cryptography and digital signatures

bslcurve

Nim implementation of BLS signature scheme (Boneh-Lynn-Shacham) over Barreto-Lynn-Scott (BLS) curve BLS12-381

bncurve

Nim implementation of Barreto-Naehrig pairing-friendly elliptic curve

xxhash.nim

A wrapper for the xxhash hashing library in Nim

xxtea

XXTEA encryption algorithm library

crc32

CRC32 for Nim. Just pass the thing you want to do CRC

rollinghash

High performance Nim implementation of a Cyclic Polynomial Hash, aka BuzHash, and the Rabin-Karp algorithm

murmurhash

Pure Nim implementation of MurmerHash

des

DES/3DES, DUKPT and MAC in Nim

shimsham

A collection of hash functions, including JH, SHA-2, SHA-3, SipHash, Tiger, and Whirlpool

NiMPC

A secure multi-party computation (MPC) library for the Nim programming language

eth

Common utilities for Ethereum

nimbus-eth1

An Ethereum 1.0 and 2.0 client for resource-restricted devices

nimbus-eth2

Efficient implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain

evmc

Ethereum VM binary compatible interface

ethash

A pure-Nim implementation of Ethash, the Ethereum proof of work

contract-abi

Implements encoding of parameters according to the Ethereum Contract ABI specification

zippy

Pure Nim implementation of deflate, zlib, gzip and zip

supersnappy

Dependency-free and performant Nim Snappy implementation

snappy

Nim implementation of Snappy compression algorithm

zip

Wrapper for the zip library

illwill

Simple cross-platform terminal library inspired by (n)curses

Color and utilities for the Linux terminal

A simple command line pager library, written in Nim

chroma

Everything you want to do with colors, in Nim

typography

Fonts, typesetting and rasterization

trick

Library for GBA/NDS image conversion, and more!

HexToAnsi

Convert hexadecimal colors to ANSI colors

nimx

Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim

NiGui

A cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit

ui

Wrapper for libui. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library

uing

Wrapper & bindings for libui-ng, an updated and maintained fork of libui

iup

Wrapper for IUP. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library

SDL2

Official wrapper for SDL 2.x

SDL2

A wrapper for SDL 2

Owlkettle

Declarative user interface framework based on GTK

libtray

Nim wrapper for Tray (dmikushin's fork), a library to create system tray/menu bar icon with a popup menu

wNim

Nim's Windows GUI Framework

gintro

High-level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim

nimqml

Qt QML bindings for the Nim programming language

Neel

A library for making Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps

nimview

A Nim/Webview based helper to create desktop/server applications with Nim and HTML/CSS

webgui

Web technologies based cross-platform GUI Framework with a dark theme

fidget

Figma based UI library for Nim, with HTML and OpenGL backends

High-level and low-level Nim wrapper for

webview

Nim bindings and wrapper for Webview

webui

Nim bindings and wrapper for WebUI

imgui

ImGui bindings for Nim via cimgui

nimAntTweakBar

Wrapper for AntTweakBar

ggplotnim

A port of ggplot2 for Nim

plotly

A plotly wrapper for Nim

graph

A basic plotting library in Nim

nimetry

Simple plotting in pure Nim

nimgraphviz

A Nim library for making graphs with GraphViz and DOT

http-utils

HTTP helper procedures

puppy

Puppy fetches HTML pages for Nim

netty

Reliable UDP connection library for games in Nim

json-rpc

Nim library for implementing JSON-RPC clients and servers

nmqtt

Native Nim MQTT client library

libp2p

A Nim implementation of the libp2p networking stack

libp2p-dht

DHT based on the libp2p kademlia spec

webdavclient

WebDAV client for Nim

stomp

A pure-Nim client library for interacting with Stomp compliant message brokers

presto

An efficient REST API framework

gemini

Building blocks for creating Gemini servers and clients

yahttp

Awesome simple HTTP client

ndns

A pure Nim Domain Name System (DNS) client

dnsprotocol

Domain Name System (DNS) protocol for Nim programming language

quic

QUIC for Nim. This is very much a work in progress, and not yet in a usable state

ngtcp2

A wrapper around ngtcp2: an effort to implement IETF QUIC protocol

ws

Simple WebSocket library for Nim

websocket.nim

WebSockets for Nim

news

Nim Easy WebSocket. Based on ws

WebSockets optimized for JavaScript targets

websock

An implementation of the WebSocket protocol for Nim

telebot.nim

Async client for Telegram Bot API in pure Nim

dimscord

A Discord Bot & REST Library for Nim

nwaku

Implementation of the Waku v1 and v2 protocols

status

Nim implementation of the Status protocol

nimMulticast

UDP Multicast made simple

Nimquery

Library for querying HTML using CSS selectors, like JavaScript's

httpbeast

A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server ( )

httpx

Cross platform web server for Nim. A fork of httpbeast adding Windows support

GuildenStern

Genuinely multithreading integrated HTTP/1.1 + WebSocket v13 Server for POSIX-compliant OSes

Mummy

A multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server with first-class support for WebSockets

netkit

Out-of-the-box, stable and secure network facilities and utilities written in pure Nim

Async HTTPS 2.0 web server

Geminim

A Gemini server

A very simple Gemini server for serving static gemtext files

Jester

The sinatra-like web framework for Nim. Jester provides a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Nim

prologue

A fullstack web framework written in Nim

whip

Simple and 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

A framework for developing single page applications in Nim

happyx

A macro-oriented full stack asynchronous web framework written in Nim

scorper

A micro and elegant web framework written in Nim

starlight

Flask-like web framework written in Nim

rosencrantz

DSL to write web servers, inspired by Spray and its successor Akka HTTP

nim_websitecreator

Nim fullstack website framework - deploy a website within minutes

nim-palladian

Palladian is a Nim front-end framework based on and wrapped around Preact

Nim's powerful built-in feature which can be used as a templating system or a preprocessor

smalte

It is a dead simple and lightweight template engine. Specially designed for configure application before start in Docker

html-dsl

Nim HTML DSL

templates

A simple string templating library for Nim

nimja

Typed and compiled template engine inspired by jinja2, twig and onionhammer/nim-templates for Nim

mustache

A full implementation of v1.2.1 of the Mustache spec

Tim

A high-performance template engine & markup language

httpauth

HTTP Authentication library for Nim

oauth

OAuth library for Nim

nimgl

NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics

glm

Port of the popular glm C++ library to Nim

GLAD

Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs

enu

3D live coding with a Logo-like DSL for Godot, implemented in Nim

nico

Nim Game Framework based on Pico-8

natu

Toolkit for writing Game Boy Advance games in Nim

naylib

safe Raylib wrapper

c4

Modular and extensible 2D and 3D game framework for Nim

paranim

A game library based around carefully chosen abstractions

NimForUE

Nim plugin for UE5 with native performance, hot reloading and full interop that sits between C++ and Blueprints

nimgame2

A simple 2D game engine for Nim

norx

A complete wrapper of the ORX 2.5D cross platform game engine library

godot-nim

Nim bindings for Godot Engine

rod

Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine

frag

Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine

semicongine

Cross-platform, (almost) dependency-free game engine

saohime

An extensible 2D game engine for Nim, inspired by Bevy Engine

alasgar

Pure nim 3D game engine based on OpenGL

turn_based_game

A game rules engine for simulating or playing turn-based games

pararules

A RETE-based rules engine made for games

Editor Support

Official list of editor plugins for Nim

nimlsp

The Language Server Protocol implementation for Nim

nim.nvim

Nim plugin for NeoVim

vscode-nim

Language support for the Nim programming language for VS Code

INim

Interactive Nim Shell

jupyternim

A Jupyter kernel for Nim

c2nim

c2nim is a tool to translate Ansi C code to Nim

nimgen

nimgen is a helper for c2nim to simplify and automate the wrapping of C libraries. Superseded by nimterop

nimterop

A Nim package that leverages tree-sitter to make C/C++ interop seamless. Superseded by Futhark

Futhark

Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim with libclang

nimpy

Generate Python wrappers and call Python from Nim

jnim

Nim - Java bridge

ChooseNim

Installing and switching between Nim versions (à la rustup, pyenv)

Nake

Describe your Nim builds as tasks

Nawabs

A build system that throws away version numbering in favor of git hashes

Nimble

Nimble can be used as a build system

nimph

Nim package hierarchy manager from the future

nimby

A very simple and unofficial package manager for Nim

nifty

A decentralized pseudo package manager and script runner

nsis

Nim programming language setup tool

nim-windows-container

A Windows Container with a complete Nim build environment

chronicles

A crafty implementation of structured logging for Nim

morelogging

Logging library for Nim

faker

A Nim package that generates fake data for you

balls

A unittest macro to save the world, or at least your Sunday

einheit

A Nim unit testing library inspired by Python's unit tests

asynctest

Complements the standard unittest module in Nim to allow testing of asynchronous code

unittest2

Fork of the "unittest" Nim module focusing on parallel test execution, test-level scoping and strict exception handling

drchaos

A powerful and easy-to-use fuzzing framework in Nim for C/C++/Obj-C targets

libfuzzer

LibFuzzer's interface bindings

golden

A benchmark for compile-time and/or runtime Nim

timeit

Measuring execution times written by Nim

criterion

Statistic-driven micro-benchmark framework

A fork of rbmz's stopwatch that adds extra features

nimbench

A micro benchmark module for Nim

cligen

Infer & generate command-line interace/option/argument parsers

docopt.nim

Command-line args parser

argparse

Argument parsing for Nim

clapfn

Argument parsing similar to Python's argparse

cliche

AutoMagic CLI argument parsing is so cliché

loki

A small library for writing line-oriented command interpreters in Nim

confutils

Simplified handling of command line options and config files

Cmdos

A simple way to process cli arguments and help messages

Book in Manning's "in Action" series, teaching Nim through 3 practical projects including CLI chat apps, web apps and parsers

A gentle introduction to the Nim programming language

Tutorial for beginners and people just starting with Nim

Status style guide for the Nim language

A complete guide to the programming language

Official Nim blog

Wrapping C, Arduino, performance, links

Blog with multiple articles on Nim

Posts on Nim and other languages

Making and shipping a game in Nim

Blog on Nim from the creator himself

Nim blogs on

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

Great guide going from 0 to a bf interpreter and then a bf to Nim compiler

Whirlwind tour

Series of pages and examples for learning the Nim programming language

Nim for Python programmers

Guide to Nim for people with experience in Python

Thousands of solutions for various tasks using Nim

A small tutorial explaining how Nim stores data in memory

A friendly explanation of ARC and its implications for the programmer

nimNx

A Nintendo Switch Homebrew example project, written in Nim

nimNxStatic

A static library example aiming to help integrate Nim code into the current Homebrew C projects for Nintendo Switch

Official videos introduce the powerful and interesting part in Nim language

This is a video series meant to teach people programming in Nim to people who have never programmed before, or are new to Nim

This is a video series meant to teach people make a website with Nim using

Tutorial video series on learning Nim showcasing various features of the language and its libraries

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

The live broadcast regarding Nim language

YouTube video series that teaches how to program in Nim and goes over various standared libraries