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