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nimja
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nimja VS happyx - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 24 May 2023
- Nim Version 1.6 Released
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Good web framework for Nim?
there also is: nimja https://github.com/enthus1ast/nimja which looks like jinja2 or twig.
badger
- How to get clean simple C output?
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The Toit language is now open source
Nothing about the entire ecosystem I was talking about. But my initial work on the keyboard firmware can be found here: https://github.com/PMunch/badger/tree/final. There are many different projects in Nim running on microcontrollers though, but not something on a common ecosystem.
HHL?
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Nim Version 1.6 Released
Well no language is perfect, but Nim can be used in almost every domain because of it's compilation targets(C, C++, JS) and it's fast compile times(who needs interpretation when compile times are that fast!):
* Shell scripting, I still assume most people will just use Bash tho: https://github.com/Vindaar/shell
* Frontend: https://github.com/karaxnim/karax or you could bind to an existing JS library.
* Backend: For something Flask-like: https://github.com/dom96/jester or something with more defaults https://github.com/planety/prologue
* Scientific computing: the wonderful SciNim https://github.com/SciNim
* Blockchain: Status has some of the biggest Nim codebases currently in production https://github.com/status-im?q=&type=&language=nim&sort=
* Gamedev: Also used in production: https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim and due to easy C and C++ interop, you get access to a lot of gamedev libraries!
* Embedded: this is a domain I know very little about but for example https://github.com/elcritch/nesper or https://github.com/PMunch/badger for fun Nim+embedded stuff!
Most of the disadvantages come from tooling and lack of $$$ support.
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Looking into Zig
I think the fact that Nim compiles to C is neat in that you can use it on any platform that has a C compiler.
Here is a recent project that uses nim for AVR platforms, for example: https://github.com/PMunch/badger
What are some alternatives?
nimview - A Nim/Webview based helper to create Desktop/Server applications with Nim/C/C++ and HTML/CSS
jester - A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.
prologue - Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim
ulisp - A version of the Lisp programming language for ATmega-based Arduino boards.
skybison - Instagram's experimental performance oriented greenfield implementation of Python.
vscode-nim
toit-color-tft
happyx - Macro-oriented asynchronous web-framework written in Nim with ♥
zig-bootstrap - take off every zig
nimquery - Nim library for querying HTML using CSS-selectors (like JavaScripts document.querySelector)
toit-lsm303dlhc - Driver for the LSM303DLHC