nim

Install command:
brew install nim

Statically typed compiled systems programming language

https://nim-lang.org/

License: MIT

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/nim.json

Formula code: nim.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 2.4.0
head ⚡️ HEAD

Patches:

https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/8c2ec2a7b010ef1a43b967205324ac83d11815d1
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/817af7edfcfca41e60e07b258c0943613783dd55
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/ce1761dff9e79d00bc012938ad6be37caa2edcfd
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/cb802af44e3c684a8738684ebdd84df31aeabf09
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/27fc4fedb5c1be6a4ec27f7d0d0c913a63f792b4
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/0e3ac706156887ce143681da42b21874c2b20774
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/commit/07de39cde6341ae278b47d64f73dd9c823dd18c5

Depends on when building from source:

help2man 1.49.3 Automatically generate simple man pages

Conflicts with: atlas (because both install `atlas` executable), mongodb-atlas-cli (because both install `atlas` executable)

Binaries: atlas, nim, nimble, nimgrep, nimpretty, nimsuggest, testament

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days7,948
Downloads185,418
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Analytics:

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Installs on Request2,3132,97819,478
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