vscode-nim VS Nim

Compare vscode-nim 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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vscode-nim Nim
5 347
179 16,060
- 0.8%
4.1 9.9
about 1 month ago 6 days ago
Nim Nim
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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vscode-nim

Posts with mentions or reviews of vscode-nim. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-30.
  • NIR: Nim Intermediate Representation
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2023
    You may fare better hooking VSCode to nimlangserver:

    https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim#nim-lanugage-server-integ...

  • Nimlangserver Announcement
    7 projects | /r/nim | 3 Jul 2022
    nimlangserver is an implementation of Language Server Protocol with the goal to make nim IDE experience more mature. The main difference between nimlangserver and the existing nimlsp is that nimlangserver runs nimsuggest in a separate process and that nimlangserver is using a newly introduced version of nimsuggest v3(see bellow). nimlangserver is currently integrated in VScode via vscode-nim and in Emacs via lsp-mode but adding integraion with other editors should be trivial.
  • what nim needs to grow in popularity
    1 project | /r/nim | 20 Apr 2022
    admittedly the editor support is far away from perfect, but that particular issue just sounds like https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim/issues/80
  • Nim Version 1.6 Released
    37 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2021
    To all those wondering about IDE support , the actively maintained VSCode extension is :

    https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim

    The default extension suggested by VSCode which have over 43k downloads in un-maintained for Eons and it won't work.

    Here is the link : https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nimsaem....

    @dom96 can you pin this somewhere on the forum or website ?

  • If you highlight proc definition with bold Nim code is much easier to read
    1 project | /r/nim | 15 Aug 2021
    UPDATE: improved highlighting rules you would get this code highligting more details https://github.com/saem/vscode-nim/issues/49

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 vscode-nim and Nim you can also consider the following projects:

nvim-treesitter - Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer

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

karax - Karax. Single page applications for Nim.

go - The Go programming language

INim - Interactive Nim Shell / REPL / Playground

Odin - Odin Programming Language

jester - A sinatra-like web framework for Nim.

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

norm - A Nim ORM for SQLite and Postgres

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

langserver - The Nim language server implementation (based on nimsuggest)

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