What does HackerNews think of nico?

The PICO-8 has a Nim-based variant called Nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico

The second talk is "Making a Platformer in NICO with Nim". NICO [0] is the Nim version of the PICO-8 [1] "fantasy console" framework (potentially faster because it uses a compiled language instead of LUA the PICO-8 is based on). Its focus is making simple games, which is a great way to learn a new language (wink wink)!

[0]: https://github.com/ftsf/nico

[1]: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

https://tic80.com/ (lua, open source - you can pay for the binaries or build it yourself)

https://liko-12.github.io/ (lua, open source, I haven't used this much, but it seems nice)

https://github.com/ftsf/nico (nim, open source. Not quite the same as the others, there's no IDE, etc. But it's a library with an API similar to PICO)

I quite like nico: https://github.com/ftsf/nico

It's got similar functions to PICO-8, but instead of lua you write it in Nim, and instead of an integrated editor, you use whatever editor you want.

Perhaps most of all though, the author also wrote some pretty cool games with it, which are also open source, so it's proven tech and you can learn from them.