awesome-nim

While it's ecosystem probably does not even match Julia's let alone Python's or the C/FORTRAN-verses, since Nim has been around for almost 20 years and publicly since 2008, there are still a lot of accumulated packages. Some are listed at: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim for really a large (and even so still incomplete!) list of things you might be interested in. Hard to say how well maintained they are. That said, you do probably have to be prepared to do a lot of work yourself and work around compiler limitiations/bugs. Also, binding to C libs is very straightforward with a near trivial FFI. I suppose it very much depends on the programmer & setting, but like 3 times I've looked for Rust projects similar to Nim ones and found the performance of the Rust quite lacking. Of course, any language that allows you access to assem

Thank you for posting this blog post. This post has helped to clarify Nim and how to approach it. To find tools for Nim I've found the Nimble Directory useful and Awesome Nim list. Are you aware of any others? https://nimble.directory https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim

Ones that have not been mentioned so far: - npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg - owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle - ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel - futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark - nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy - questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable - nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm - chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos - cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting in continuation passi

This provides a good overview of packages for various applications: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim I think most of them are available via nimble.

Ecosystem-wise - a brief subset of Nim packages: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim packages.json has many more - over 2000.

One can, of course, go much further than simply distinct number types in Nim: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#science (Unchained seems maybe the most featureful of those units packages.)

> This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is that it? It is also useful for anyone wanting to implement language-level features as simple libraries. Someone else brought up Nim here: it's a great example of what can be done with metaprogramming (and in a non-Lisp language) as it intentionally sticks to a small-but-extendable-core design. There's macro-based libraries that implement the following, with all the elegance of a compiler feature: traits, interfaces, classes, typeclasses, contracts, Result types, HTML (and other) DSLs, syntax sugar for a variety of things (notably anonymous functions `=>` and Option types `?`), pattern matching (now in the compiler), method cascading, async/await, and more that I'm forgetting. https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#language-fea

Just under their table of contents, they say that "This list is fairly outdated." and point you to https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim - and that repo seems to have recent updates.

Thanks for making these, I actually had no idea these existed! I don't "need" them now but seeing these gives me ideas for projects and makes future things easier. I wish discovery of community libraries was higher, I'm constantly discovering libraries that do amazing things 'hidden' away. I know there's https://nimble.directory/ and https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim but most of the time I end up using a search engine for something specific only if I think of it.