Nim Library

Open-source Nim projects categorized as Library

Top 8 Nim Library Projects

  1. uing

    A fork of ui that wraps libui-ng instead of libui

  2. InfluxDB

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  3. polymorph

    A fast and frugal entity-component-system library with a focus on code generation and compile time optimisation.

  4. nimgram

    An MTProto client written in Nim 👑

  5. nimpylib

    "Write Python in Nim!" Python builtins/standard-Lib functions ported to Nim (by nimpylib)

    Project mention: Nim 2.2.6 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-31

    > with the syntax of Python

    this library allows that: https://github.com/hraban/metabang-bind (never tried)

    with some limitations: https://github.com/nimpylib/nimpylib/tree/master/doc/mustRew... (no "end" argument in print, no triple quote and newline, no "a not in b" (write not (a in b)), no variable named _ (underscore), or double underscore, no slice as foo[:b] where the left part of the slice is not specified, rewrite foo[0:b], etc.

  6. excelin

    Create and read Excel file purely in Nim

  7. ssh2.nim

    Async SSH, SCP and SFTP client for Nim, using libssh2 wrapper [WIP]

  8. nim-fswatch

    Nim wrapper for the fswatch library

  9. Stream

    Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

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  10. nim-easygui

    Extremely simple GUI library for Nim with English-like syntax

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

Nim Library discussion

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    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Oct 2025
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Library projects in Nim? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 uing 180
2 polymorph 146
3 nimgram 74
4 nimpylib 57
5 excelin 52
6 ssh2.nim 39
7 nim-fswatch 8
8 nim-easygui 2

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