NimForUE

There's a wrapper for unreal engine using the C++ interopt. It's doable but not automatic. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE Mentally I view Nim as a better, safer, easier C++ now. Anything I wanted to do in C/C++ I can do in Nim, but far easier. Not exactly a Carbon competitor but still an alt C++ 2.0 with C++ interopt.

Nim does, when tied in with Unreal Engine 5. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr4-cOsAWA

Glad to see that the windows executables are working again (downloadable and not flagged as malware). I had tried a little while ago to test things out on my windows machine after seeing the NimForUE project (https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE) and was sad to see that my computer would auto-mark any nim binaries as malware and delete them. I wasn't too invested so I just shrugged rather than looking for too many workarounds.

For people scared off by C++ and who want faster recompile times, check out the Nim bindings [0]. Check out his Twitter/X account [1] for plenty of cool things it brings to the table. [0]: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE [1]: https://twitter.com/_jmgomez_

I started using Nim because i wanted to port some of machine learning models written in python with the idea of making them more portable. It was a lot of work as community is relatively small and a new user would end up writing a lot of code. But Nim has a pretty solid standard library with clearly written code and an awesome community to help with problems. I generally read a lot of standard library code to expand my knowledge of language and discover common patterns which repeat themselves in a lot of real world problems. C inter-op is really first class, and as far as i know it has one of best C++ inter-op as well, you can take a look at: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE for a real world example. I use Nim for my work in both professional and personal capacity and also have written about some of it at https://ramanlabs.in/static/bl

I think Nim is a bit younger, and took a while to find it's core features. It also now has better support for multithreading with arc/orc. It has a chance at slow and steady growth. It's maybe not the best at anything though it is well rounded, but mainlyfor me brings back a joy in programming. Nim has excellent C++ FFI. It's not perfect, but capable of wrapping C++ templates, calling constructors, and virtual methods. Though it can be a pain dealing with inner template types and consts. Here's a larger example of C++ interfacing with Unreal Engine: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE

Nim rocks and the ecosystem has made some great strides lately. I highly recommend checking it out One awesome project is https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE

It's great to hear Nim in production stories! > I feel like Nim made me fall in love with programming again. Same. It's just so frictionless and productive, and you know your code will run on basically any platform in a nice, efficient, self contained executable. For me it's a language of sensible defaults. Speed and safety first, and opt-in machine level control. Want to target that obscure microcontroller? No worries: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel. Want to use Unreal? Sure: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE. Want to target the web? Native React support with https://github.com/andreaferretti/react.nim or web apps with https://github.com/karaxnim/karax. The list goes on! https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Curated-Packages But, what if you want to use that battle tested C++ library? Nim can compile to C++ so you have native ABI FFI!