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Tools available with Nim
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The standard distribution ships with the following tools:
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- | `Hot code reloading <hcr.html>`_
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| The "Hot code reloading" feature is built into the compiler but has its own
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document explaining how it works.
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- | `Documentation generator <docgen.html>`_
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| The builtin document generator `nim doc` generates HTML documentation
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from `.nim` source files.
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- | `Nimsuggest for IDE support <nimsuggest.html>`_
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| Through the `nimsuggest` tool, any IDE can query a `.nim` source file
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and obtain useful information like the definition of symbols or suggestions for
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completion.
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- | `C2nim <https://github.com/nim-lang/c2nim/blob/master/doc/c2nim.rst>`_
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| C to Nim source converter. Translates C header files to Nim.
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- | `niminst <niminst.html>`_
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| niminst is a tool to generate an installer for a Nim program.
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- | `nimgrep <nimgrep.html>`_
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| Nim search and replace utility.
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- | nimpretty
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| `nimpretty` is a Nim source code beautifier,
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to format code according to the official style guide.
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- | `testament <https://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/testament.html>`_
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| `testament` is an advanced automatic *unittests runner* for Nim tests,
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is used for the development of Nim itself, offers process isolation for your tests,
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it can generate statistics about test cases, supports multiple targets (C, JS, etc),
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`simulated Dry-Runs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_run_(testing)>`_,
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has logging, can generate HTML reports, skip tests from a file, and more,
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so can be useful to run your tests, even the most complex ones.
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