nimsl

I think this is really important for application programming, and one of the things that is promising to me about Nim. Also the metaprogramming / DSL stuff helps create eg. specific DSLs for UI programming and things like that (something we've seen people like with JSX in React for example). Can do things as far as https://github.com/krux02/opengl-sandbox (OpenGL pipeline DSL) or https://github.com/yglukhov/nimsl (literally converts Nim functions to GLSL (!)).

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

Yeah, especially for things like gamedev. It's got the perfect mix of productivity and speed, yet allows complex metaprogramming and compile time evaluation. It does need more users, for sure, but I think it's a testament to the productivity of the language that people have done so much cool stuff already. Random example, metaprogramming & unit tests for glsl: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimsl