owlkettle VS awesome-nim

Compare owlkettle vs awesome-nim and see what are their differences.

awesome-nim

A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources. (by ringabout)
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owlkettle awesome-nim
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owlkettle

Posts with mentions or reviews of owlkettle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.
  • Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2024
    This is really cool! I love the JSX-like approach to UI and it's a shame it's not so common on desktop. https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle is the only thing I find comparable.
  • Owlkettle – declarative GUI framework for Nim
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Feb 2024
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Ones that have not been mentioned so far:

    nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

    npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg

    futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark

    nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

    questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable

    ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

    cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps

    chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos

    zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

    owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle

    A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.

  • Simple Gamepad Support
    7 projects | /r/nim | 10 May 2023
    Although for a GUI (if I even made one, rather than just a fixed/hardcoded setup) I'd probably use Owlkettle(though there are some things I don't like about it, see closed issue 16).
  • Forte! A new way of writing Gtk apps for GNOME.
    3 projects | /r/gnome | 16 Jan 2023
    A similar library in nim is https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle
  • How should one start a GUI library
    1 project | /r/nim | 10 Dec 2022
    There's also Owlkettle that seems a bit easier/cleaner IMO, though when I tried it I had some issues (clunky container workflow, wanting better scaling) and would prefer something similar using Qt.
  • Show HN: Owlkettle – A Declarative user interface framework based on GTK 4
    1 project | /r/hypeurls | 15 Jul 2022
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2022

awesome-nim

Posts with mentions or reviews of awesome-nim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.
  • Nim v2.0 Released
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Aug 2023
    Ones that have not been mentioned so far:

    nlvm is an unofficial LLVM backend: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

    npeg lets you write PEGs inline in almost normal PEG notation: https://github.com/zevv/npeg

    futhark provides for much more automatic C interop: https://github.com/PMunch/futhark

    nimpy allows calling Python code from Nim and vice versa: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

    questionable provides a lot of syntax sugar surrounding Option/Result types: https://github.com/codex-storage/questionable

    ratel is a framework for embedded programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel

    cps allows arbitrary procedure rewriting to continuation passing style: https://github.com/nim-works/cps

    chronos is an alternative async/await backend: https://github.com/status-im/nim-chronos

    zero-functional fixes some inefficiencies when chaining list operations: https://github.com/zero-functional/zero-functional

    owlkettle is a declarative macro-oriented library for GTK: https://github.com/can-lehmann/owlkettle

    A longer list can be found at https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim.

  • Hamarosan itt a Nim programozási nyelv 2.0.0-s változata
    1 project | /r/codingHungary | 2 Apr 2023
    Hasznos cuccok hozzá: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim
  • Nim 2.0.0 RC2
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2023
    Ecosystem-wise - a brief subset of Nim packages:

        https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim
  • Twenty five thousand dollars of funny money
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2022
    One can, of course, go much further than simply distinct number types: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#science

    (Unchained seems maybe the most featureful of those units packages.)

  • An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2022
    > This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is that it?

    It is also useful for anyone wanting to implement language-level features as simple libraries. Someone else brought up Nim here: it's a great example of what can be done with metaprogramming (and in a non-Lisp language) as it intentionally sticks to a small-but-extendable-core design.

    There's macro-based libraries that implement the following, with all the elegance of a compiler feature: traits, interfaces, classes, typeclasses, contracts, Result types, HTML (and other) DSLs, syntax sugar for a variety of things (notably anonymous functions `=>` and Option types `?`), pattern matching (now in the compiler), method cascading, async/await, and more that I'm forgetting.

    https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim#language-features

  • Nim: Curated Packages
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2022
    Just under their table of contents, they say that "This list is fairly outdated." and point you to https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim - and that repo seems to have recent updates.
  • Nim Community Survey 2021 Results
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jan 2022
    Thanks for making these, I actually had no idea these existed! I don't "need" them now but seeing these gives me ideas for projects and makes future things easier.

    I wish discovery of community libraries was higher, I'm constantly discovering libraries that do amazing things 'hidden' away. I know there's https://nimble.directory/ and https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim but most of the time I end up using a search engine for something specific if I think of it.

  • Prologue: A powerful web framework written in Nim
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Oct 2020
    awesome-nim: https://github.com/xflywind/awesome-nim

What are some alternatives?

When comparing owlkettle and awesome-nim you can also consider the following projects:

Relm4 - Build truly native applications with ease!

prologue - Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim

ImThemes - Dear ImGui style browser and editor written in Nim

nim-chronos - Chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming

NiGui - Cross-platform desktop GUI toolkit written in Nim

awesome-prologue - Plugins for prologue written in Nim.

nimgram - An MTProto client written in Nim 👑

prologue-examples - A repository to host examples for Prologue framework written in Nim language.

futhark - Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim

nimtraits - Automatic trait implementation for nim types

pixie - Full-featured 2d graphics library for Nim.

enu - A Logo-like 3D environment, implemented in Nim