awesome-nim

A curated list of awesome Nim frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim

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Language Features
- Package Repositories
  - Nim package directory - Explore Nim packages known to Nimble.
  - Nim packages - List of packages for Nimble.
- Editors
  - Nim Playground - Code and run Nim online.
  - moe - A vim-like editor made with Nim, also supports C, Rust, Javascript, etc.
  - DoongJohn's Nim playground - An alternative implementation of the Nim playground.
  - Nev - A keyboard focused GUI and terminal text editor.
- Async IO
  - std/async - Async/await implementation in Nim's stdlib (aka asyncdispatch).
  - chronos - An efficient library for asynchronous programming.
  - cps - Continuation-Passing Style for Nim.
- Functional Programming
  - cascade - Method & assignment cascades for Nim, inspired by Smalltalk & Dart.
  - pipe - Pipe operator for Nim, as seen in functional languages.
  - nimfp - Nim functional programming library.
  - nim-pipexp - Expression-based pipe operators with placeholder argument for Nim.
  - zero-functional - A library providing (almost) zero-cost chaining for functional abstractions in Nim.
- Pattern Matching
  - gara - Macro-based pattern matching library.
  - glob - Pure library for matching file paths against Unix style glob patterns.
  - glob - Pure library for matching file paths against Unix style glob patterns.
  - regex - Pure Nim regex engine with linear time match.
  - npeg - PEGs for Nim, another take.
  - patty - A pattern matching library for Nim.
  - ast_pattern_match - A library to do pattern matching on the AST.
  - awk - A library of awk functions in Nim.
  - tinyre - A tiny regex engine based on Rob Pike's VM implementation.
- Implementations
  - Nim - Nim (formerly known as "Nimrod") is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nim's design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority).
  - nlvm - LLVM backend for Nim.
- Standard Libraries
  - cpython - Python standard library for Nim.
  - Node.js - Node.js standard library for Nim.
  - pylib - Pure Nim implementation for Python builtins, libraries and sugars.
- Threading
  - weave - A state-of-the-art multithreading runtime: message-passing based, fast, scalable, ultra-low overhead.
  - timerpool - Threadsafe timerpool implementation for event purposes.
  - taskpools - Lightweight, energy-efficient, easily auditable threadpools.
  - shared - A Nim library for shared types.
  - synthesis - A compiletime, procedure-based, low-overhead, no-allocation, state-machine generator optimized for communicating processes and threads.
  - sync - Useful synchronization primitives.
  - threadlogging - A thread safe logging library using Nim's own logging module
  - malebolgia - A powerful library in Nim that simplifies the implementation of concurrent and parallel programming.
- Error Handling
  - result - Friendly, exception-free value-or-error returns, similar to Option[T].
  - questionable - Elegant optional types for Nim.
  - optionsutils - Utility macros for easier handling of options in Nim.
  - questionable - Elegant optional types for Nim.
  - result - Friendly, exception-free value-or-error returns, similar to Option[T].
- Contracts
  - contracts - Used to make contracts - elegant promises that pieces of code will fulfill certain conditions.
  - contra - Lightweight and fast self-documenting design by contract programming.
- Object-Oriented Programming
  - oop_utils - Nim macros for building OOP class hierarchies.
  - interfaced - Interfaces for Nim.
  - traitor - A macro heavy trait library made from boredom.
  - classes - Python-style class system for Nim.
  - classy - Haskell-style typeclasses for Nim.
- Iteration
  - iterrr - Macros-based functional-style, lazy-like, extensible iterator library.
  - itertools - Nim rewrite of a very popular Python module of the same name.
  - loopfusion - Iterate efficiently over a variadic number of containers.
  - looper - For loop macros for Nim.
  - mangle - Attempt at a streaming library.
  - loopfusion - Iterate efficiently over a variadic number of containers.
- Macros
  - macroutils - A package that makes creating macros easier.
  - nimacros - Documentation for Nim macros.
  - unpack - Sequence/object unpacking/destructuring.
  - with - The `with` macro for Nim.
  - memo - Memoization for Nim.
Operating System
- IO
  - std/selectors - Epoll/Kqueue/Select implementation in Nim's stdlib.
  - ioselectors - The ioselectors plus for Nim.
  - wepoll - Windows epoll wrapper for Nim.
  - faststreams - Nearly zero-overhead input/output streams for Nim.
  - lockfreequeues - Lock-free queue implementations for Nim.
  - wepoll - Windows epoll wrapper for Nim.
- System API
  - winim - Nim's Windows API and COM Library.
  - serial - A Nim library for accessing serial ports.
  - tempdir - A Nim library to create and manage temporary directories.
  - nimbluez - Nim modules for access to system Bluetooth resources.
- Processes
  - psutil - A port of Python's psutil to Nim.
  - shell - A mini Nim DSL to execute shell commands more conveniently.
  - schedules - A Nim scheduler library that lets you kick off jobs at regular intervals.
  - daemon - Cross-platform process daemonization library for the Nim language.
- Date and Time
  - datetime2human - Calculate date & time with precision from seconds to millenniums. Human friendly date time as string. ISO-8601.
  - timezones - Nim timezone library compatible with the standard library.
  - chrono - A timestamps, calendars, and timezones library.
- Randomization
  - random - Random number generation library for Nim, inspired by Python's "random" module.
  - sysrandom.nim - A Nim library to generate random numbers and random ranges of bytes using the system's PRNG.
  - alea - Define and compose random variables.
  - drand48 - Nim implementation of the standard Unix drand48 random number generator.
- Scripting
  - nimcr - Running Nim code with Shebangs.
  - nimr - Run Nim programs like scripts.
Data
- Serialization
  - nesm - NESM is a tool that generates serialization and deserialization code for a given object.
  - serialization - A modern and extensible serialization framework for Nim.
  - json-serialization - Flexible JSON serialization not relying on run-time type information.
  - protobuf-serialization - The nim-protobuf-serialization.
  - ssz-serialization - Nim implementation of Simple Serialize (SSZ) serialization and merkleization.
  - toml-serialization - Flexible TOML serialization `not` relying on run-time type information.
  - frosty - Marshal native Nim objects via streams, sockets.
  - protobuf-nim - Protobuf implementation in pure Nim that leverages the power of the macro system to not depend on any external tools.
  - flatty - Tools and serializer for plain flat binary files.
  - bingo - Binary serialization framework for Nim.
- Database
  - nimongo - Pure Nim lang MongoDB driver.
  - asyncpg - Asynchronous PostgreSQL driver for Nim.
  - anonimongo - Another Nim pure Mongo DB driver.
  - redis - Official redis wrapper for Nim.
  - amysql - Async MySQL Connector write in pure Nim.
  - mycouch - Multisync CouchDB driver for Nim.
  - SQLiteral - A high level SQLite API for Nim.
  - asyncmysql - Asynchronous MySQL connector written in pure Nim.
  - sqlcipher - SQLCipher wrapper.
  - litestore - A lightweight, self-contained, RESTful, searchable, multi-format NoSQL document store.
  - rocksdb - Nim wrapper for RocksDB, a persistent key-value store for flash and RAM Storage.
  - ormin - Prepared SQL statement generator , A lightweight ORM.
  - allographer - A query_builder/ORM library inspired by Laravel/PHP and Orator/Python for Nim.
  - gatabase - Connection-Pooling Compile-Time ORM for Nim.
  - norm - Norm is an object-oriented, framework-agnostic ORM for Nim that supports SQLite and PostgreSQL.
  - tiny_sqlite - Very lightweight and safe SQLite library.
  - limdb - Very high performance, persistent and safe key-value store based on LMDB with Nim table-like interface.
- Data Structures
  - BitVector - A high-performance Nim implementation of BitVectors.
  - rbtree - A Red/Black tree implementation in Nim.
  - quadtree - A Quadtree library for Nim.
  - kdtree - A pure Nim k-d tree implementation for efficient spatial querying of point data.
  - RTree - Generic R-tree implementation for Nim.
  - sorta - SortedTables in Nim, based on B-trees.
  - minmaxheap - A Nim implementation of a Minimum-Maximum heap.
  - BipBuffer - A Nim implementation of Simon Cooke's Bib Buffer
  - bloom - Bloom filter implementation in Nim.
  - binaryheap - Simple binary heap implementation in Nim.
  - faststack - Dynamically resizable data structure for fast iteration over large arrays of similar elements.
  - StashTable - Concurrent hash tables for Nim.
- Data Processing
  - NimData - DataFrame API written in Nim, enabling fast out-of-core data processing.
  - Datamancer - A dataframe library with a dplyr like API.
  - nimdataframe - Dataframe for Nim.
  - nimhdf5 - Wrapper and some simple high-level bindings for the HDF5 library for Nim.
  - mpfit - A wrapper for the cMPFIT library for Nim.
- Parsing
  - parsetoml - A Nim library to parse TOML files.
  - NimYAML - YAML implementation for Nim.
  - Binarylang - Extensible Nim DSL for creating binary parsers/encoders in a symmetric fashion.
  - iniplus - INI parser with support for arrays and tables.
- Standards
  - isocodes - ISO codes for Nim (ISO 3166-1, ISO 3166-2, ISO 3166-3, ISO 15924, ISO 15924, ISO 639-2, ISO 639-5)
User Interface
- Terminal
  - NimCx - Color and utilities for the Linux terminal.
  - pager - A simple command line pager library, written in Nim.
  - illwill - Simple cross-platform terminal library inspired by (n)curses.
- GUI
  - NiGui - A cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit.
  - nimx - Desktop, Mobile & Web GUI framework in Nim.
  - ui - Wrapper for libui. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library.
  - uing - Wrapper & bindings for libui-ng, an updated and maintained fork of libui.
  - iup - Wrapper for IUP. Beginnings of what might become Nim's official UI library.
  - SDL2 - Official wrapper for SDL 2.x.
  - SDL2 - A wrapper for SDL 2.
  - Owlkettle - Declarative user interface framework based on GTK.
  - libtray - Nim wrapper for Tray (dmikushin's fork), a library to create system tray/menu bar icon with a popup menu.
  - wNim - Nim's Windows GUI Framework.
  - gintro - High-level GObject-Introspection based GTK3/GTK4 bindings for Nim.
  - nimqml - Qt QML bindings for the Nim programming language.
  - Neel - A library for making Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps.
  - nimview - A Nim/Webview based helper to create desktop/server applications with Nim and HTML/CSS.
  - webgui - Web technologies based cross-platform GUI Framework with a dark theme.
  - fidget - Figma based UI library for Nim, with HTML and OpenGL backends.
  - nsciter - High-level and low-level Nim wrapper for https://sciter.com.
  - webview - Nim bindings and wrapper for Webview.
  - webui - Nim bindings and wrapper for WebUI.
  - imgui - ImGui bindings for Nim via cimgui.
  - nimAntTweakBar - Wrapper for AntTweakBar.
  - NiGui - A cross-platform, desktop GUI toolkit.
- Design
  - chroma - Everything you want to do with colors, in Nim.
  - typography - Fonts, typesetting and rasterization.
  - trick - Library for GBA/NDS image conversion, and more!
  - HexToAnsi - Convert hexadecimal colors to ANSI colors.
- Plotting
  - ggplotnim - A port of ggplot2 for Nim.
  - plotly - A plotly wrapper for Nim.
  - graph - A basic plotting library in Nim.
  - nimetry - Simple plotting in pure Nim.
  - nimgraphviz - A Nim library for making graphs with GraphViz and DOT.
Web
- Protocols
  - jswebsockets - WebSockets optimized for JavaScript targets.
  - http-utils - HTTP helper procedures.
  - puppy - Puppy fetches HTML pages for Nim.
  - netty - Reliable UDP connection library for games in Nim.
  - json-rpc - Nim library for implementing JSON-RPC clients and servers.
  - nmqtt - Native Nim MQTT client library.
  - libp2p - A Nim implementation of the libp2p networking stack.
  - libp2p-dht - DHT based on the libp2p kademlia spec.
  - webdavclient - WebDAV client for Nim.
  - stomp - A pure-Nim client library for interacting with Stomp compliant message brokers.
  - presto - An efficient REST API framework.
  - gemini - Building blocks for creating Gemini servers and clients.
  - yahttp - Awesome simple HTTP client.
  - ndns - A pure Nim Domain Name System (DNS) client.
  - dnsprotocol - Domain Name System (DNS) protocol for Nim programming language.
  - quic - QUIC for Nim. This is very much a work in progress, and not yet in a usable state.
  - ngtcp2 - A wrapper around ngtcp2: an effort to implement IETF QUIC protocol.
  - ws - Simple WebSocket library for Nim.
  - websocket.nim - WebSockets for Nim.
  - news - Nim Easy WebSocket. Based on ws.
  - websock - An implementation of the WebSocket protocol for Nim.
  - telebot.nim - Async client for Telegram Bot API in pure Nim.
  - dimscord - A Discord Bot & REST Library for Nim.
  - nwaku - Implementation of the Waku v1 and v2 protocols.
  - status - Nim implementation of the Status protocol.
  - nimMulticast - UDP Multicast made simple.
  - libp2p - A Nim implementation of the libp2p networking stack.
  - libp2p-dht - DHT based on the libp2p kademlia spec.
  - quic - QUIC for Nim. This is very much a work in progress, and not yet in a usable state.
  - ngtcp2 - A wrapper around ngtcp2: an effort to implement IETF QUIC protocol.
  - nwaku - Implementation of the Waku v1 and v2 protocols.
- HTTP Servers
  - jshttp2 - Async HTTPS 2.0 web server.
  - httpbeast - A highly performant, multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server ([top 10 in FrameworkBenchmarks](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&test=json)).
  - httpx - Cross platform web server for Nim. A fork of httpbeast adding Windows support.
  - GuildenStern - Genuinely multithreading integrated HTTP/1.1 + WebSocket v13 Server for POSIX-compliant OSes.
  - Mummy - A multi-threaded HTTP 1.1 server with first-class support for WebSockets.
  - netkit - Out-of-the-box, stable and secure network facilities and utilities written in pure Nim.
- Gemini Servers
  - Nemini - A very simple Gemini server for serving static gemtext files.
  - Geminim - A Gemini server.
- Template Engines
  - Nim Source Code filters - Nim's powerful built-in feature which can be used as a templating system or a preprocessor.
  - smalte - It is a dead simple and lightweight template engine. Specially designed for configure application before start in Docker.
  - html-dsl - Nim HTML DSL.
  - templates - A simple string templating library for Nim.
  - nimja - Typed and compiled template engine inspired by jinja2, twig and onionhammer/nim-templates for Nim.
  - mustache - A full implementation of v1.2.1 of the Mustache spec.
  - Tim - A high-performance template engine & markup language.
- HTML Parsers
  - Nimquery - Library for querying HTML using CSS selectors, like JavaScript's `document.querySelector`.
- Frameworks
  - Jester - The sinatra-like web framework for Nim. Jester provides a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Nim.
  - prologue - A fullstack web framework written in Nim.
  - whip - Simple and fast HTTP server for Nim based on httpbeast and nest for high performance routing.
  - basolato - A fullstack web framework for Nim based on Jester.
  - karax - A framework for developing single page applications in Nim.
  - happyx - A macro-oriented full stack asynchronous web framework written in Nim.
  - scorper - A micro and elegant web framework written in Nim.
  - starlight - Flask-like web framework written in Nim.
  - rosencrantz - DSL to write web servers, inspired by Spray and its successor Akka HTTP.
  - nim_websitecreator - Nim fullstack website framework - deploy a website within minutes.
  - nim-palladian - Palladian is a Nim front-end framework based on and wrapped around Preact.
- Authentication
  - httpauth - HTTP Authentication library for Nim.
  - oauth - OAuth library for Nim.
Development Tools
- Editor Integration
  - Editor Support - Official list of editor plugins for Nim.
  - nimlsp - The Language Server Protocol implementation for Nim.
  - nim.nvim - Nim plugin for NeoVim.
  - vscode-nim - Language support for the Nim programming language for VS Code.
- REPL
  - INim - Interactive Nim Shell.
  - jupyternim - A Jupyter kernel for Nim.
  - INim - Interactive Nim Shell.
- Binding Generators
  - c2nim - c2nim is a tool to translate Ansi C code to Nim.
  - nimgen - nimgen is a helper for c2nim to simplify and automate the wrapping of C libraries. Superseded by nimterop.
  - nimterop - A Nim package that leverages tree-sitter to make C/C++ interop seamless. Superseded by Futhark.
  - Futhark - Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim with libclang.
  - nimpy - Generate Python wrappers and call Python from Nim.
  - jnim - Nim - Java bridge.
  - rnim - A bridge between R and Nim. Currently this is a barely working prototype. -->
- Build Systems / Package Management
  - ChooseNim - Installing and switching between Nim versions (à la rustup, pyenv).
  - Nake - Describe your Nim builds as tasks.
  - Nawabs - A build system that throws away version numbering in favor of git hashes.
  - Nimble - Nimble can be used as a build system.
  - nimph - Nim package hierarchy manager from the future.
  - nimby - A very simple and unofficial package manager for Nim.
  - nifty - A decentralized pseudo package manager and script runner.
  - nsis - Nim programming language setup tool.
  - nim-windows-container - A Windows Container with a complete Nim build environment.
- Logging
  - chronicles - A crafty implementation of structured logging for Nim.
  - morelogging - Logging library for Nim.
- Testing
  - faker - A Nim package that generates fake data for you.
  - balls - A unittest macro to save the world, or at least your Sunday.
  - einheit - A Nim unit testing library inspired by Python's unit tests.
  - asynctest - Complements the standard unittest module in Nim to allow testing of asynchronous code.
  - unittest2 - Fork of the "unittest" Nim module focusing on parallel test execution, test-level scoping and strict exception handling.
  - asynctest - Complements the standard unittest module in Nim to allow testing of asynchronous code.
- Fuzzing
  - drchaos - A powerful and easy-to-use fuzzing framework in Nim for C/C++/Obj-C targets.
  - libfuzzer - LibFuzzer's interface bindings.
- Benchmarking
  - golden - A benchmark for compile-time and/or runtime Nim.
  - criterion - Statistic-driven micro-benchmark framework.
  - stopwatch - A fork of rbmz's stopwatch that adds extra features.
  - nimbench - A micro benchmark module for Nim.
  - timeit - Measuring execution times written by Nim.
- Command-Line Interface Automation
  - cligen - Infer & generate command-line interace/option/argument parsers.
  - docopt.nim - Command-line args parser.
  - argparse - Argument parsing for Nim.
  - cliche - AutoMagic CLI argument parsing is so cliché.
  - loki - A small library for writing line-oriented command interpreters in Nim.
  - confutils - Simplified handling of command line options and config files
  - Cmdos - A simple way to process cli arguments and help messages.
  - clapfn - Argument parsing similar to Python's argparse.
Resources
- Books
  - Nim in Action - Book in Manning's "in Action" series, teaching Nim through 3 practical projects including CLI chat apps, web apps and parsers.
  - Computer Programming with Nim - A gentle introduction to the Nim programming language.
  - Mastering Nim - A complete guide to the programming language.
  - Nim Basics - Tutorial for beginners and people just starting with Nim.
  - Nim Style Guide - Status style guide for the Nim language.
- Blogs
  - Nim Blog - Official Nim blog.
  - Goran Krampe - Wrapping C, Arduino, performance, links.
  - HookRace - Blog with multiple articles on Nim.
  - Rants from the Ballmer Peak - Posts on Nim and other languages.
  - Yuriy Glukhov's blog - Making and shipping a game in Nim.
  - Araq's Musings - Blog on Nim from the creator himself.
  - Nim on dev.to - Nim blogs on `dev.to`.
- Community
- Tutorials
  - How I start - Great guide going from 0 to a bf interpreter and then a bf to Nim compiler.
  - Learn Nim in Y minutes - Whirlwind tour.
  - Nim by Example - Series of pages and examples for learning the Nim programming language.
  - Nim for Python programmers - Guide to Nim for people with experience in Python.
  - Nim on Rosetta Code - Thousands of solutions for various tasks using Nim.
  - Nim Memory - A small tutorial explaining how Nim stores data in memory.
  - Nim ARC - A friendly explanation of ARC and its implications for the programmer.
- Videos
  - Nim's Official Channel - Official videos introduce the powerful and interesting part in Nim language.
  - Nim for Beginners - This is a video series meant to teach people programming in Nim to people who have never programmed before, or are new to Nim.
  - Make a website with Nim - This is a video series meant to teach people make a website with Nim using `jester`.
  - Learning Nim - Tutorial video series on learning Nim showcasing various features of the language and its libraries.
  - araq twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - alehander42 twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - clyybber twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - d0m96 twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - disruptek twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - yardanico twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - zachary_carter twitch - The live broadcast regarding Nim language.
  - Nim Tutorials - YouTube video series that teaches how to program in Nim and goes over various standared libraries.
Hardware
- Backups
  - ftd2xx - Wrapper for FTDI ftd2xx library (USB to JTAG/SPI/I2C/Bitbang etc.).
  - nimvisa - Wrapper for NI-VISA instrument control library.
- Embedded
  - ratel - Next-generation, zero-cost abstraction microconroller programming in Nim.
  - ardunimo - Nim wrapper for Arduino + LinkIt ONE SDK by Mediatek.
  - ardunimesp - Nim wrapper for Arduino ESP8266 framework + A tool for flashing, compiling and making a Nim project into an Arduino project.
  - msp430f5510 - Run Nim on MSP430f5510 micro-controller (6KB of RAM).
  - Nesper - Program the ESP32 using Nim. Library on top of esp-idf.
  - stm32f3 - Run Nim on STM32F3 micro-controller (16KB of RAM).
  - boneIO - GPIO implementation for the BeagleBone Black for Nim.
Science
- Embedded
  - units - Statically-typed quantity units library for the Nim language.
  - unchained - A fully type safe, compile time only units library.
  - metric - A small library providing type-level dimensional analysis.
  - orbits - Orbital mechanics library for Nim.
  - qex - High-level framework for lattice field operations.
Text
- String Types
  - ssostrings - Small String Optimized (SSO) string implementation.
  - cowstrings - Copy-On-Write string implementation according to nim-lang/RFCs#221.
- Translation
  - tinyslation - Text string translation from free online crowdsourced API.
- Markdown
  - HastyScribe - Self-contained markdown compiler generating self-contained HTML documents.
  - markdown - A beautiful Markdown Parser in the Nim world.
  - lester - Create quick documents out of Markdown, into HTML.
Multimedia
- Audio
  - paramidi - A Nim library for making MIDI music.
  - omni - A DSL for low-level audio programming.
  - wave - A tiny WAV sound module.
  - parasound - A library to provide Nim bindings for miniaudio and dr_wav.
  - jacket - A Nim wrapper for the libjack C library to write clients for the JACK audio server.
- Images
  - pixie - A full-featured 2D graphics library for Nim.
  - nimpng - PNG (Portable Network Graphics) decoder and encoder written in Nim.
  - nimbmp - BMP decoder and encoder written in Nim.
  - nimsvg - A Nim-based DSL allowing generation of SVG files and GIF animations.
  - pnm - Library for PNM (Portable Anymap) in Nim.
- Documents
  - nimpdf - PDF document writer, written in Nim.
Algorithms
- Math
  - symbolicnim - A symbolic library written purely in Nim.
  - impulse - Impulse will be a collection of primitives for signal processing (FFT, Convolutions).
  - vectorize - SIMD vectorization backend.
  - vmath - Math vector library for graphical things.
  - neo - A matrix library.
  - manu - Nim MAtrix NUmeric package - a port of JAMA, adapted to Nim.
  - nlopt - A wrapper for the nonlinear optimization library Nlopt.
- Deep Learning
  - Arraymancer - A fast, ergonomic and portable tensor library in Nim with a deep learning focus for CPU, GPU, OpenCL and embedded devices.
  - NimTorch - PyTorch - Python + Nim. A Nim front-end to PyTorch's native backend, combining Nim's speed, productivity and portability with PyTorch's latest implementations.
  - laser - Carefully-tuned primitives for running tensor and image-processing code on CPU, GPUs and accelerators.
  - flambeau - Nim bindings to libtorch. -->
- Bigints
  - bigints - Bigints for Nim.
  - stint - Stack-based arbitrary-precision integers. Fast and portable with natural syntax for resource-restricted devices.
  - theo - An optimized bigint and number theory library for Nim.
- Cryptography
  - nimcrypto - Nim cryptographic library.
  - nimaes - Advanced Encryption Standard, Rinjdael Algorithm written in Nim.
  - constantine - Constant time pairing-based of elliptic curve based cryptography and digital signatures.
  - bslcurve - Nim implementation of BLS signature scheme (Boneh-Lynn-Shacham) over Barreto-Lynn-Scott (BLS) curve BLS12-381.
  - bncurve - Nim implementation of Barreto-Naehrig pairing-friendly elliptic curve.
  - xxtea - XXTEA encryption algorithm library.
  - crc32 - CRC32 for Nim. Just pass the thing you want to do CRC.
  - rollinghash - High performance Nim implementation of a Cyclic Polynomial Hash, aka BuzHash, and the Rabin-Karp algorithm.
  - murmurhash - Pure Nim implementation of MurmerHash
  - des - DES/3DES, DUKPT and MAC in Nim.
  - shimsham - A collection of hash functions, including JH, SHA-2, SHA-3, SipHash, Tiger, and Whirlpool.
  - NiMPC - A secure multi-party computation (MPC) library for the Nim programming language.
  - hashlib - Hash library that contains almost all the hash functions for Nim.
  - xxhash.nim - A wrapper for the xxhash hashing library in Nim.
- Blockchain
  - eth - Common utilities for Ethereum.
  - nimbus-eth1 - An Ethereum 1.0 and 2.0 client for resource-restricted devices.
  - nimbus-eth2 - Efficient implementation of the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain.
  - evmc - Ethereum VM binary compatible interface.
  - ethash - A pure-Nim implementation of Ethash, the Ethereum proof of work.
  - contract-abi - Implements encoding of parameters according to the Ethereum Contract ABI specification.
  - web3 - The humble beginnings of a Nim library similar to web3.[js|py]. -->
  - abc - Experimental asynchronous blockchain. -->
  - nitro - Highly experimental implementation of the Nitro statechannels protocol in Nim. -->
  - contract-abi - Implements encoding of parameters according to the Ethereum Contract ABI specification.
  - nitro - Highly experimental implementation of the Nitro statechannels protocol in Nim. -->
- Compression
  - zippy - Pure Nim implementation of deflate, zlib, gzip and zip.
  - supersnappy - Dependency-free and performant Nim Snappy implementation.
  - snappy - Nim implementation of Snappy compression algorithm.
  - zip - Wrapper for the zip library.
Game Development
- Game Libraries
  - nimgl - NimGL is a Nim library that offers bindings for popular libraries used in computer graphics.
  - glm - Port of the popular glm C++ library to Nim.
  - GLAD - Multi-Language Vulkan/GL/GLES/EGL/GLX/WGL Loader-Generator based on the official specs.
  - enu - 3D live coding with a Logo-like DSL for Godot, implemented in Nim.
- Game Frameworks
  - nico - Nim Game Framework based on Pico-8.
  - natu - Toolkit for writing Game Boy Advance games in Nim.
  - naylib - safe Raylib wrapper.
  - c4 - Modular and extensible 2D and 3D game framework for Nim.
  - paranim - A game library based around carefully chosen abstractions.
  - c4 - Modular and extensible 2D and 3D game framework for Nim.
- Game Engines
  - NimForUE - Nim plugin for UE5 with native performance, hot reloading and full interop that sits between C++ and Blueprints.
  - nimgame2 - A simple 2D game engine for Nim.
  - norx - A complete wrapper of the ORX 2.5D cross platform game engine library.
  - godot-nim - Nim bindings for Godot Engine.
  - rod - Cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine.
  - frag - Cross-platform 2D/3D game engine.
  - semicongine - Cross-platform, (almost) dependency-free game engine.
  - saohime - An extensible 2D game engine for Nim, inspired by Bevy Engine.
  - alasgar - Pure nim 3D game engine based on OpenGL.
- Rules Engines
  - turn_based_game - A game rules engine for simulating or playing turn-based games.
  - pararules - A RETE-based rules engine made for games.
System Tools
- Backups
  - norg - A portable wrapper for borg and restic.

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