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[https://nim-lang.org Nim's] original website design by Dominik Picheta and Hugo Locurcio. Joseph Wecker created the Nim logo.

The Nim programming language is '''a concise, fast programming language''' that compiles to C, C++ and JavaScript. Nim's initial development was started in 2005 by Andreas Rumpf. It was originally named Nimrod when the project was made public in 2008.<ref name="NimAction">{{Cite book |last=Picheta |first=Dominik |year=2017 |title=Nim in Action |publisher=Manning Publications |isbn=978-1617293436}}</ref>{{rp|4–11}}<!-- Section 1.1: What is Nim? -->

The first version of the Nim [[compiler]] was written in [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]] using the [[Free Pascal]] compiler.<ref name="pas-sources">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Araq/Nim/tree/ea1f1ec6d4d6c776eb0f81c2bebdd4cb4c817ebe/nim |title=Nim Pascal Sources |website=GitHub |access-date=2013-04-05}}</ref> In 2008, a version of the compiler written in Nim was released.<ref name="news">{{cite web |url=http://nim-lang.org:80/news.html |title=News |website=Nim-lang.org |access-date=2016-06-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626002904/http://nim-lang.org/news.html |archive-date=2016-06-26}}</ref> The compiler is [[free and open-source software]], and is being developed by a community of volunteers working with Andreas Rumpf.<ref name="contributors">{{cite web |url=https://github.com/Araq/Nim/contributors |title=Contributors |website=GitHub |access-date=2013-04-05}}</ref> The language was officially renamed from ''Nimrod'' to ''Nim'' with the release of version 0.10.2 in December 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nim-lang.org/blog/2014/12/29/version-0102-released.html |title=Version 0.10.2 released |date=2014-12-29 |first=Dominik |last=Picheta |website=Nim-lang.org |access-date=2018-10-17}}</ref> On September 23, 2019, version 1.0 of Nim was released, signifying the maturing of the language and its toolchain. On August 1, 2023, version 2.0 of Nim was released, signifying the completion, stabilization of, and switch to the ARC/ORC memory model.<ref name="Nim v2.0 released">{{Cite web |title=Nim v2.0 released |url=https://nim-lang.org/blog/2023/08/01/nim-v20-released.html |access-date=2023-08-17 |website=Nim Programming Language |language=en}}</ref>