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nim-lang
nimble
Nim2014–2024
nim-lang / nimble

nimble

Package manager for the Nim programming language.

13Distinct people
19Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
1.4KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Package manager for the Nim programming language.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

Didn't really see a ton of substance in that, it seemed to mainly add up to a long-winded explanation of printing out a text file using two different languages in convoluted…

ilaksh used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year19 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-30 16:13:15 UTC to 2024-04-10 21:01:37 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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For a while now I've been looking at using Nim, and this weekend I did my first project with it: a tool for creating binary wrappers. In Nixpkgs we often create wrappers, but those have thus far been shell scripts causing trouble at times on e.g. OSX. https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/95569 I found it easy to get up to speed and do something useful with it. The language is also in my opinion very readable. The documentation could use some more (larger) examples though. For this wrappers tool I needed a front-end for which I wanted to create an interface with argparse. Unfortunately the standard library lacks an implementation, and third-party packages did not deliver what I needed. In the end I wrote that part in Python still. The biggest issue I currently find is the lack of a lock file format for its package manager. It's being deve
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loped, and as soon as its there I intend to implement support for it in Nixpkgs. https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/issues/127. The compiler gives very useful output and is fast as well, and the generated binaries are small. I like this language!
In Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language

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