Nim Links

A collection of Nim-related links that I may need to refer to later. Lists of articles, posts, libraries, or other materials. Kind of an awesome-list, but not as curated!

Libraries

GUI / Desktop

Libraries to assist in the creation of desktop applications

• Native Widgets
• SDL-based
• Other Graphics Library Based
• Web-based

Graphics

Libraries to generate or display graphics

• Images

  • treeform/pixie - A full-featured 2D graphics library

• Plotting

  • ruivieira/matplotnim - A matplotlib wrapper.
  • sista/graph - A simple plotting library. Outputs to .png or .svg

• Realtime

  • treeform/pixie - A full-featured 2D graphics library.
  • nim-lang/sdl2 - The original SDL2 port.
  • Vladar4/sdl2_nim - Another SDL2 option, with slightly different API.

Scientific

Libraries for primarily technical or scientific purposes

• Math
• AI / ML
• Computer Vision
• Data
• Plot

Parsing / Pattern Matching / Text Processing

Libraries for parsing, pattern matching, or other kinds of text or data processing

• nitely/nim-regex - A pure Nim library that offers fast regex abilities. Doesn't require an external/dynamic library.

Data

Libraries for dealing with databases, data processing, or data storage

• moigagoo/norm - Norm is an object-driven, framework-agnostic ORM for Nim that supports SQLite and PostgreSQL.
• SSPkrolik/nimongo - A basic pure nim MongoDB driver with a nice interface. Doesn't support every feature, but does support sync/async to some extent. Sufficient for simple use cases for sure!

Embedded

Web

Javascript

Libraries focused on the JS Nim target

• Frontend
  • juancarlospaco/nim-html-tools - A collection of HTML template tools for Nim.
• Graphics
  • define-private-public/HTML5-Canvas-Nim - A nice HTML5 canvas wrapper for the JS target.
• Node

Scripting (Nimscript)

Utility

• c-blake/cligen - A nice, full featured, CLI tool argument / options / input parsing library.

Articles

Useful smaller articles and reading related to Nim

Books and Guides

Useful books and longer guides about Nim or Nim-related topics

Books

• Nim in Action - By Dominik Picheta. The main Nim book. Somewhat older, but still relevant and good. Goes through the basics of the language with example projects, and touches on a few more advanced or niche aspects of Nim such as FFI/wrapping, and packages.

Overviews

• Computer Programming with the Nim Programming Language - By Stefan Salewski. A comprehensive overview of the language, geared towards those interested in programming in general.
• Nim Basics - By narimiran. A Basic overview of Nim, geared towards those with minimal programming experience.
• Learn Nim in Y Minutes - A fast, example code-based introduction to the language.

Details

• The Nim Memory Model - By zevv. An overview of how Nim deals with memory.

Scripting

• Nimscript Guide (Nim Docs) - An overview of using Nim as a scripting language.