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# Tools available with Nim

The standard distribution ships with the following tools:

- atlas
  `atlas` is a simple package cloner tool. It manages an isolated workspace that contains projects and dependencies.

- Hot code reloading
  The "Hot code reloading" feature is built into the compiler but has its own document explaining how it works.

- Documentation generator
  The builtin document generator `nim doc` generates HTML documentation from `.nim` source files.

- Nimsuggest for IDE support
  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
  C to Nim source converter. Translates C header files to Nim.

- niminst
  niminst is a tool to generate an installer for a Nim program.

- nimgrep
  Nim search and replace utility.

- nimpretty
  `nimpretty` is a Nim source code beautifier, to format code according to the official style guide.

- testament
  `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), 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.