nimble VS Nim

Compare nimble vs Nim and see what are their differences.

nimble

Package manager for the Nim programming language. (by nim-lang)

Nim

Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority). (by nim-lang)
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nimble Nim
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1,229 16,079
0.5% 0.5%
8.2 9.9
1 day ago 4 days ago
Nim Nim
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nimble

Posts with mentions or reviews of nimble. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-02.
  • Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
    56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023
    I was using Nim for some of last years Advent of Code problems. I was mostly liking the syntax. Was a bit bother by the standard library have a snake case and camel case reference for each function (if I'm remember that correctly).

    At the time nimble also required me to have NPM to install the the Nim package manager, Nimble. This was not ideal, but looking at [the nimble project install docs](https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble#installation) it seems like it is now package with the language.

    Might try dusting it off for some AoC puzzles this year :)

  • My Nim Development Weekly Report (2/19)
    4 projects | dev.to | 3 Mar 2023
    nimble develop -g doesn't work A possible solution is to add "g" to where "global" is placed.
  • nimble run --example (PR)
    1 project | /r/nim | 21 Sep 2022
  • Question about nimble
    2 projects | /r/nim | 23 Jan 2022
    I meant it's unfortunate that Nimble has no standard system-wide library management. It's one of the mains thing holding Nim back from being more prevalent in the Linux sphere in my opinion.
  • Alternative privacy-respecting front ends for popular services
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Dec 2021
    `nimble` is the package manager for the programming language `nim` [1].

    From [2], we can see that `nimble scss` simply generates the CSS files for the frontend.

    The benefit of OSS is you can answer these questions yourself with a bit of poking around! IMO this is a fairly standard installation process, maybe the fact that it's using Nim instead of a more mainstream language makes it look more daunting than it is. The only out-of-the-ordinary thing here, IMO, is `nimble build` instead of `make build`.

    [1]: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble

    [2]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/blob/master/nitter.nimble

  • Nim 1.6.2
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
    Something I'm excited about: v1.6.2 integrates support for (not yet released) Nimble[1] v0.14, which introduces lockfiles. I've had terrible experiences with lockfiles in JS land, but they are sorely needed for Nim projects as (fingers crossed) they'll allow for reproducible builds without having to resort to the nimbus-build-system[2]. The latter isn't completely horrible — a lot of much appreciated hard work has gone into it, and it's been a real workhorse — but some days it feels like a big ball and chain.

    [1] https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble#nimble

    [2] https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-build-system

  • What are some anti features in a language?
    1 project | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 8 Jun 2021
    So you wouldn't have a problem with a package manager where the configuration is in the same language, such as Nimble?
  • What best IDE/editor for NIM now.
    1 project | /r/nim | 17 May 2021
    if you structure your project with nimble (which can be be used for both libraries and applications) you can use nimble build and nimble run. While I do use nimble for managing dependencies for projects I don't use these commands that often while developing, e.g. because I'm working on a single test or something like that.
  • Using Ruby
    1 project | /r/ruby | 6 Jan 2021
    Having similar syntax to Ruby makes it easier to port Ruby code to Crystal (ex: digest-crc -> digest-crc.cr). The Crystal stdlib is very complete and they have a growing "shards" ecosystem, roughly the same age as Rust's https://crates.io or Nim's nimble. You should look into Crystal again.

Nim

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-26.
  • 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2024
  • Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    22. Nim - $80,000
  • "14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    I think the right answer to your question would be NimLang[0]. In reality, if you're seeking to use this in any enterprise context, you'd most likely want to select the subset of C++ that makes sense for you or just use C#.

    [0]https://nim-lang.org/

  • Odin Programming Language
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
  • Ask HN: Interest in a Rust-Inspired Language Compiling to JavaScript?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Dec 2023
    I don't think it's a rust-inspired language, but since it has strong typing and compiles to javascript, did you give a look at nim [0] ?

    For what it takes, I find the language very expressive without the verbosity in rust that reminds me java. And it is also very flexible.

    [0] : https://nim-lang.org/

  • The nim website and the downloads are insecure
    1 project | /r/nim | 11 Dec 2023
    I see a valid cert for https://nim-lang.org/
  • Nim
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    FYI, on the front page, https://nim-lang.org, in large type you have this:

    > Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.

  • Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Oct 2023
    You better off with using a compiled language.

    If you interested in a language that's compiled, fast, but as easy and pleasant as Python - I'd recommend you take a look at [Nim](https://nim-lang.org).

    And to prove what Nim's capable of - here's a cool repo with 100+ cli apps someone wrote in Nim: [c-blake/bu](https://github.com/c-blake/bu)

  • Mojo is now available on Mac
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023
    Chapel has at least several full-time developers at Cray/HPE and (I think) the US national labs, and has had some for almost two decades. That's much more than $100k.

    Chapel is also just one of many other projects broadly interested in developing new programming languages for "high performance" programming. Out of that large field, Chapel is not especially related to the specific ideas or design goals of Mojo. Much more related are things like Codon (https://exaloop.io), and the metaprogramming models in Terra (https://terralang.org), Nim (https://nim-lang.org), and Zig (https://ziglang.org).

    But Chapel is great! It has a lot of good ideas, especially for distributed-memory programming, which is its historical focus. It is more related to Legion (https://legion.stanford.edu, https://regent-lang.org), parallel & distributed Fortran, ZPL, etc.

  • NIR: Nim Intermediate Representation
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 2 Oct 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing nimble and Nim you can also consider the following projects:

Arraymancer - A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU and embedded devices via OpenMP, Cuda and OpenCL backends

zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

prologue - Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim

go - The Go programming language

nimlsp - Language Server Protocol implementation for Nim

Odin - Odin Programming Language

nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

nim-zmq - Nim ZMQ wrapper

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

omni - DSL for low-level audio programming.

v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io