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Automatic wrapping of C headers in Nim

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-10-09 · latest 2025-09-01

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  1. …are tools to help automate the process ([c2nim]( https://github.com/nim-lang/c2nim ), [futhark]( https://github.com/PMunch/futhark )), but these tools are mostly for C. Theoretically if you want to import a large C++ API (e.g. if you were…
    comment by miguel_martin · 2025-09-01 · in A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
  2. You don't want nimterop, you want futhark ( https://github.com/PMunch/futhark ). The C FFI Nim library lineage goes c2nim --> nimterop --> something i forgot --> futhark.
    comment by frigid · 2024-01-22 · in C23: A Slightly Better C
  3. …on Github for any feature requests. Bitfields - In my line of work this is a must-have. [0] - https://github.com/PMunch/futhark [1] - https://github.com/m-schmoock/lcpp
    comment by rwbt · 2024-01-02 · in Odin Programming Language
  4. …programming: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel - 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 -…
    comment by j-james · 2023-08-01 · in Nim 2.0
  5. …C libraries (instead of C++ or Rust) but maybe easy adopt for Zig - would be great nonetheless. [0] https://github.com/PMunch/futhark
    comment by pzo · 2023-08-01 · in Nim 2.0
  6. …also ties it to limitations of backends. Possibly relevant is https://github.com/nim-lang/c2nim & https://github.com/PMunch/futhark & the rather old/probably partly stale in both columns https://github.com/timotheecour/D_vs_nim . There are…
    comment by cb321 · 2022-10-12 · in Zig-style generics are not well-suited for most languages