nim-wiki/Nim-use-cases.asciidoc

This is an introductory page on use cases where you might want to use Nim.

### Where Nim works well

Multiarch applications:: As Nim compiles through GCC, any architecture supported by GCC can run Nim.

Gaming:: Nim was designed with gaming in mind. See documentation regarding speed and GC. 

Embedded systems and microcontrollers:: Nim have some of the smallest memory overhead and binary size compared to other languages.

### Where Nim will work well

The following use case might require larger amounts of libraries, tools, and language maturity in general (as in early 2015)

System libraries:: Nim can produce libraries to be used by other languages (https://gradha.github.io/articles/2015/01/writing-c-libraries-with-nim.html[docs], https://akehrer.github.io/posts/connecting-nim-to-python/[example])

Cryptography:: Nim is safer than C [also see System libraries]

### Where Nim might not be the best fit

Scripts and interactive use:: Nim is a complied languages and the interactive interpreter is somewhat limited.

Beginners:: as a first language, Nim is more complex than Python or Ruby