NimEdit is the new upcoming slim IDE/editor for the Nim programming language.

Installation

NimEdit now uses the new uirelays library for drawing and font rendering. This library talks directly to your OS and has no dependencies. But it can also use an SDL 3 backend via -d:sdl3.

To install the required dependencies use:

nimble install

Windows

NimEdit uses the Windows API for drawing and font rendering. To the best of my knowledge nothing special needs to be installed. (Corrections welcome!)

Linux

On Linux we use X11:

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxft-dev

You may need to install good fonts via:

sudo apt install fonts-freefont-ttf fonts-dejavu-core

OSX

NimEdit uses a Cocoa-based wrapper which does not require anything beyond the typical frameworks. To the best of my knowledge nothing special needs to be installed. (Corrections welcome!)