Nim4Colab

Nim4Colab is a IPython extension to integrate Nim language on Google Colaboratory.

How to use

Copy and paste following code to a cell on Google Colaboratory and run. This code download, install and load Nim4Colab extension.

!pip install git+https://github.com/nehtr/nim4colab.git
%load_ext nim4colab

Then, you can use line and cell magics in Nim4Colab extenson.

%%nims
echo "Nim version ", NimVersion

Nim4Colab downloads and installs latest Nim from Nim nightlies when first time one of Nim4Colab's magic is called. User code is saved to ~/code.nims file before nim command is called.

Cell magics

%%nimc [options]

Compile and run Nim code. Equivalent to calling nim c --verbosity:0 [options] ~/code.nims

%%nims [options]

Run the code as a Nim script (without compiling it).
ATTENTION: not all the Nim libraries are supported in Nimscript, though most of them are. Equivalent to calling nim c --verbosity:0 [options] ~/code.nims

%%nim command [options]

Equivalent to calling nim command [options] ~/code.nims

%%nimdevc [options]

Same to %%nimc but uses devel branch Nim.

%%nimdev command [options]

Same to %%nim but uses devel branch Nim.

Line magics

%nim [parameters]

Execute nim [parameters].

%nimdev [parameters]

Execute nim [parameters] using devel branch Nim.

%nimble [parameters]

Execute nimble [parameters].

Refer Nim Compiler User Guide.

Optimax125/nim4colab