THTheWiggles·Sep 19, 2025Submission
Language Server Protocol Implementation for Nim
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nimlsp
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nimlsp
Language Server Protocol implementation for Nim
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5 sourcesI'm getting back into Nim after a little break. I really enjoy the language. I'm having a helluva time trying to get some basic tooling set up though. I wanted to install nimlsp[0] so I uninstalled the nim I had installed with homebrew and started over with choosenim. Still running into issues. `nimble install nimlsp` results in:
nimble install nimlsp
Downloading https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp using git
Verifying dependencies for nimlsp@0.4.4
Info: Dependency on jsonschema@>= 0.2.1 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for jsonschema@0.2.1
Info: Dependency on ast_pattern_matching@any version already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for ast_pattern_matching@1.0.0
Info: Dependency on asynctools@>= 0.1.1 already satisfied
Verifying dependencies for asynctools@0.1.1
Installing nimlsp@0.4.4
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Building nimlsp/nimlsp_debug using c backend
/Users/me/.nimble/pkgs2/ast_pattern_matching-1.0.0-b5b08c554b072eed227f98a437f7333584cf957e/ast_pattern_matching.nim(575, 28) Error: invalid indentation
Prompt: Build failed for 'nimlsp@0.4.4', would you like to try installing 'nimlsp@#head' (latest unstable)? [y/N]
Answer: n
Tip: 12 messages have been suppressed, use --verbose to show them.
nimble.nim(729) install
Error: Aborting installation due to build failure.
Then I read on some old issue[1] that I should uninstall ast_pattern_matching. I assumed this meant `nimble uninstall ast_pattern_matching` so I did that, but there's nothing to delete..
Error: Failed uninstall - no packages to delete
Anyone have some advice or can provide guidance on getting nimlsp up and running? My ultimate goal is to have some basic stuff working in neovim so I can move on with writing some nim.
[0]: https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp
[1]: https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp/issues/156
Tooling has been a weak point, but it's getting better. I've been having a pretty good time of late with nimlsp[1] plus Emacs and lsp-mode[2].
[1] https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp#readme
[2] https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode#readme
In Nim 1.6.2To all those wondering about IDE support , the actively maintained VSCode extension is :
https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim
The default extension suggested by VSCode which have over 43k downloads in un-maintained for Eons and it won't work.
Here is the link : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nimsaem....
This extension works properly , go-to definations too.
Nim need contributors on VSCode and other extensions part , and the language server which is in active development :
https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp
@dom96 can you pin this somewhere on the forum or website ?
In Nim 1.6True, though the VSCode Nim plugin "just worked" for me. The compile messages work too, I think using the Nim LSP [1].
1: https://github.com/PMunch/nimlsp
In Nim – Python-like statically-typed compiled language