Nim - Programming language

Nim is an open source programming language created in 2008 by Andreas Rumpf.

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Nim (formerly named Nimrod) is an imperative, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language designed and developed by Andreas Rumpf. It is designed to be "efficient, expressive, and elegant", supporting metaprogramming, functional, message passing, procedural, and object-oriented programming styles by providing several features such as compile time code generation, algebraic data types, a foreign function interface (FFI) with C and compiling to JavaScript, C and C++.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Nim is developed on GitHub and has 16,308 stars
There are at least 8,018 Nim repos on GitHub
Early development of Nim happened in https://github.com/nim-lang
Nim compiles to C or C++ or Objective-C or JavaScript
Nim is written in Nim, Markdown, HTML, YAML, C, Bourne shell, JSON, reStructuredText, Python, CSS, Assembly language, CSV, SQL, Tex, Ini, XML, Bash
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 299 users using Nim in 472 repos on GitHub
There are 36 Project Euler users using Nim
Explore Nim snippets on Rosetta Code
Nim appears in the TIOBE Index
Nim Ubuntu package
Nim LSP implementation
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Nim
Nim appears in the Quine Relay project
Learn Nim on exercism.
There is a central package repository for Nim
nim-lang.org was registered in 2014
See also: (25 related languages) Ada, Modula-3, Lisp, Object Pascal, Python, Oberon, C, JavaScript, Pascal, Delphi, C#, Go, Objective-C, iOS, Android, Git, JSON, OpenGL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Lua, Scala, D, Rust
Read more about Nim on the web: 1.
13 PLDB concepts link to Nim: Ace Editor, cloc, FlatBuffers, Flow9, mal, Nim, Nimskull, pipelines, Pygments, shiv, spry, Star, Xidoc

Example from Compiler Explorer:

# Type your code here, or load an example.
proc square(num: int): int {.exportc.} =
  num * num

Example from Riju:

echo "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

echo("Hello World")

Example from the Hello World Collection:

# Hello world in Nim

echo "Hello World"

Example from Linguist:

# from: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/blob/27b081d1f77604ee47c886e69dbc52f53ea3741f/compiler/nimfix/nimfix.nim.cfg

# Special configuration file for the Nim project
# gc:markAndSweep

hint[XDeclaredButNotUsed]:off
path:"$projectPath/.."

path:"$lib/packages/docutils"
path:"$nim"

define:useStdoutAsStdmsg
symbol:nimfix
define:nimfix

cs:partial
#define:useNodeIds
define:booting
define:noDocgen

Example from Wikipedia:

proc printf(formatstr: cstring) {.header: "<stdio.h>", varargs.}

printf("%s %d\n", "foo", 5)

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Unicode Identifers	✓	let δ = 0.00001
Booleans	✓	let res = true	true false on off
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Assignment	✓		=
MultiLine Comments	✓	#[ A comment ]#	#[ ]#
Print() Debugging	✓		echo
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Static Typing	✓
Case Insensitive Identifiers	✓	# Though they may be phased out: # https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/456
Semantic Indentation	✓
Macros	✓	# https://hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/#macros import macros dumpTree: result = 10
Templates	✓	# https://hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/#templates template debug*(args: varargs[string, `imported ../code/conceptPage.scroll

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