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Vladar4
libtcod_nim
Nim2017–2017
Vladar4 / libtcod_nim

libtcod_nim

Wrapper of the libtcod library for the Nim language.

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Wrapper of the libtcod library for the Nim language.

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Observed mentions: 2017-01-09 14:45:27 UTC to 2017-01-09 15:52:42 UTC.

012017-01-09 14:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-09 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 9, 14:002017-01-09 15:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-09 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 9, 15:00

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ilaksh·Jan 9, 2017
webdev https://github.com/dom96/jester Nim's standard lib also has sockets and http. Nim's niche is clean and fast code, with strong C/C++ interop and metaprogramming. Run 'nimble search game' to get a list like this (I did not copy and paste the whole list): libtcod-nim: url: git://github.com/Vladar4/libtcod-nim/ (git) tags: roguelike, game, library, engine, sdl, opengl, glsl description: Wrapper of the libtcod library for the Nim language. license: zlib website: https://github.com/Vladar4/libtcod-nim nimgame: url: git://github.com/Vladar4/nimgame/ (git) tags: game, engine, sdl description: Simple 2D game engine for Nim language. license: MIT website: https://github.com/Vladar4/nimgame sfml: url: git://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-sfml/ (git) tags: game,
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library, opengl description: High level OpenGL-based Game Library license: MIT website: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-sfml enet: url: git://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-enet/ (git) tags: game, networking, udp description: Wrapper for ENet UDP networking library license: MIT website: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-enet fowltek: url: git://github.com/fowlmouth/nimlibs/ (git) tags: game, opengl, wrappers, library, assorted description: A collection of reusable modules and wrappers. license: MIT website: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimlibs nimrod-glfw: url: git://github.com/rafaelvasco/nimrod-glfw/ (git) tags: library, glfw, opengl, windowing, game description: Nim bindings for GLFW library. license: MIT website: https://github.com/rafaelvasco/nimrod-glfw chipmunk: url: git://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-chipmunk/ (git) tags: library, physics, game description: Bindings for Chipmunk2D 6.x physics library (for backwards compatibility) license: MIT website: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-chipmunk chipmunk6: url: git://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-chipmunk/ (git) tags: library, physics, game description: Bindings for Chipmunk2D 6.x physics library license: MIT website: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-chipmunk nim-glfw: url: git://github.com/EXetoC/nim-glfw/ (git) tags: library, glfw, opengl, windowing, game description: A high-level GLFW 3 wrapper license: MIT website: https://github.com/EXetoC/nim-glfw linagl: url: https://bitbucket.org/BitPuffin/linagl (hg) tags: library, opengl, math, game description: OpenGL math library license: CC0 website: https://bitbucket.org/BitPuffin/linagl
In Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released
arc776·Jan 9, 2017
Webdev and games are fairly well covered, not sure about IOT but as far as embedded goes I know people are using it on arduino & RPi. Check out the stdlib: http://nim-lang.org/docs/lib.html Some interesting projects related to the above: Webdev frameworks: https://github.com/dom96/jester https://flyx.github.io/emerald/ https://github.com/onionhammer/nim-templates.git Gamedev: Urho3D game engine wrapper: https://github.com/3dicc/Urhonimo Nim GLSL framework (allows writing GLSL in Nim, meaning you can use metaprogramming in GLSL): https://github.com/yglukhov/nimsl Roguelike api: https://github.com/Vladar4/libtcod-nim/ SFML lib: https://github.com/BlaXpirit/nim-csfml SDL lib: https://github.com/PMunch/SDLGamelib High level glfw wrapper: https://github.com/ephja/nim-glfw Chipmonk wrapper: https://github.com/fowlmouth/nimrod-chipmunk/ Blog on
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writing a 2D platformer in Nim: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-... Blog on making a JS NES emulator in Nim: https://hookrace.net/nimes/
In Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released

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