prologue VS Nim

Compare prologue vs Nim and see what are their differences.

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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prologue Nim
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prologue

Posts with mentions or reviews of prologue. 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
  • prologue VS happyx - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 24 May 2023
  • Setup a Website with Nim
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2022
    If you want to try an alternative to Jester, Prologue is very nice to use: https://github.com/planety/prologue
  • Prologue – Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2022
  • Nim Version 1.6 Released
    37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2021
    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.

  • Good web framework for Nim?
    5 projects | /r/nim | 25 Sep 2021
    It doesn't https://github.com/planety/prologue/blob/devel/prologue.nimble
  • How to create a file upload server?
    1 project | /r/nim | 26 May 2021
    Jester is really great but I feel Prologue should get some attention too.
  • Learning Nim: Web Server with Jester and Norm [video]
    1 project | /r/nim | 14 Mar 2021
    Nice! I want to also suggest the Prologue framework - here are the docs
  • One Nim web framework to rule over all styles
    1 project | dev.to | 10 Feb 2021
    Prologue is a great web framework in the Nim world. However, Prologue framework tries to avoid using macros. It is intended to reduce magic and reduce surprise. Macros could save you from redundant codebases. At the mean time, it could bring surprise. This article talks about how to extend the routing style outside Prologue without invading inside the web framework.
  • Prologue: A powerful web framework written in Nim
    4 projects | dev.to | 21 Oct 2020
    Prologue is a powerful and extensible web framework written in Nim language.

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 prologue and Nim you can also consider the following projects:

jester - A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.

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

awesome-nim - A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

go - The Go programming language

nim-playground-frontend - The front-end for https://play.nim-lang.org

Odin - Odin Programming Language

httpbeast - A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server written in Nim.

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

norm - A Nim ORM for SQLite and Postgres

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

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

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