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Nim plugin for UE5 with native performance, hot reloading and full interop that sits between C++ and Blueprints. This allows you to do common UE workflows like for example to extend any UE class in Nim and extending it again in Blueprint if you wish so without restarting the editor. The final aim is to be able to do in Nim what you can do in C++

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 8 comments · first 2022-11-14 · latest 2025-09-01

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  1. There's a wrapper for unreal engine using the C++ interopt. It's doable but not automatic. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE Mentally I view Nim as a better, safer, easier C++ now. Anything I wanted to do in C/C++ I can do in Nim, but…
    comment by elcritch · 2025-09-01 · in A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code
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    Nim plugin for Unreal Engine 5 with hot reloading
    story by archargelod · 2025-05-01 · 0 comments
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    Nim for Unreal Engine
    story by ibobev · 2024-05-29 · 0 comments
  4. Nim does, when tied in with Unreal Engine 5. https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdr4-cOsAWA
    comment by misswaterfairy · 2024-04-26 · in Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
  5. …a little while ago to test things out on my windows machine after seeing the NimForUE project ( https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE ) and was sad to see that my computer would auto-mark any nim binaries as malware and delete them. I wasn't…
    comment by banashark · 2024-04-16 · in Nim Versions 2.0.4 and 1.6.20 released
  6. …[0]. Check out his Twitter/X account [1] for plenty of cool things it brings to the table. [0]: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE [1]: https://twitter.com/_jmgomez_
    comment by V1ndaar · 2023-09-12 · in Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
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    Nim Lang for Unreal Engine
    story by mariuz · 2023-06-27 · 0 comments
  8. …first class, and as far as i know it has one of best C++ inter-op as well, you can take a look at: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE for a real world example. I use Nim for my work in both professional and personal capacity and also have…
    comment by warangal · 2023-06-26 · in Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?
  9. …inner template types and consts. Here's a larger example of C++ interfacing with Unreal Engine: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
    comment by elcritch · 2023-06-26 · in Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch on like Rust did?
  10. …has made some great strides lately. I highly recommend checking it out One awesome project is https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE
    comment by curioussavage · 2023-03-31 · in Nim 2.0.0 RC2
  11. …obscure microcontroller? No worries: https://github.com/PMunch/ratel . Want to use Unreal? Sure: https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE . Want to target the web? Native React support with https://github.com/andreaferretti/react.nim or web…
    comment by rlipsc · 2022-11-14 · in I enjoy using the Nim programming language at Reddit