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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).

162 mentions on Hacker News by 100 people: 13 stories, 149 comments · first 2013-08-26 · latest 2026-08-14

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  1. …really address one of Apple's chief concerns: smoothly transitioning away from Objective-C. [0]: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors
    comment by bjz_ · 2014-11-19 · in Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
  2. …departure time is ", flights[getClosest()].depart, ", arriving at ", flights[getClosest()].arrive https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers
    comment by Cyther606 · 2014-11-19 · in Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
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    Nimrod is being renamed to Nim
    story by bilalhusain · 2014-09-22 · 62 comments
  4. …http://nimrod-by-example.github.io/variables/type_casting_in... Quick introduction for C programmers: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers
    comment by progman · 2014-08-25 · in Revenge of the Types
  5. …Nimrod will ever get there. It seems to be a one-man shop at this point (as this demonstrates): https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors
    comment by tdees40 · 2014-07-17 · in Nimrod by Example
  6. …hobby work I'm doing. The compiler and standard library are MIT licensed. http://nimrod-lang.org/ https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod Also, there's a recent forum posting about the decision not to do LLVM codgen for now:…
    comment by dmarble · 2014-06-29 · in Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
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    Nimrod for C programmers
    story by stesch · 2014-05-04 · 64 comments
  8. Nimrod - http://nimrod-lang.org - http://github.com/Araq/Nimrod Nimrod is a "new" systems programming language which is statically typed, uses space delimited blocks (like Python) and compiles to C to create very fast and dependency free…
    comment by dom96 · 2014-03-07 · in Ask HN: Looking for contributors?
  9. Have you seen Nimrod? http://nimrod-lang.org/manual.html#foreign-function-interfac... https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/wiki/Nimrod-for-C-programmers http://nimrod-lang.org/
    comment by ilaksh · 2014-02-10 · in If you had to start over, what technologies would you learn in 2014?
  10. To support the fact it's mainly one guy: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors His name is Andreas Rumpf and he is really impressive.
    comment by DorianMarie · 2014-01-16 · in Nimrod: A New Approach to Metaprogramming [video]
  11. …are case sensitive. Lot's of 'already defined' errors. There is nice discussion about it here: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/issues/521
    comment by saejox · 2013-09-02 · in Nimrod: The Return of Pascal
  12. #def, according to https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/blob/master/doc/c2nim.txt , requires modification of the C header files. I don't think this is a practical option, for example, they might be system .h files.
    comment by WalterBright · 2013-08-26 · in Nimrod: C + Macros + GC