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@Brokezawa Brokezawa released this 16 Feb 17:52
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Nebble v1.0.0: The Modern Full-Stack Nim Wrapper for Pebble

We are thrilled to announce the official v1.0.0 release of Nebble, a comprehensive, type-safe Nim wrapper for the Pebble SDK. Nebble transforms the Pebble development experience, bringing modern language features, deterministic memory management, and a unified full-stack workflow to the platform.

🚀 Key Features

  • Unified Full-Stack Nim: Write both your watch firmware (compiled to C) and your phone-side logic (compiled to JS) entirely in Nim. Share enums, constants, and logic seamlessly across the entire stack with 100% type safety.
  • Automatic Memory Management: Stop fighting manual resource cleanup. Nebble’s Managed Handles leverage Nim’s ARC (Automatic Reference Counting) to handle object lifecycles and SDK memory handoffs automatically.
  • Declarative UI DSL: Build responsive UIs with the powerful nebbleApp macro. Define your app’s structure, text layers, and click configurations in a clean, declarative block that eliminates repetitive boilerplate.
  • Modern Build Pipeline: Seamless integration with the modern Pebble/Rebble SDK. The CLI automatically manages the transition to package.json and handles complex multi-platform build matrices.
  • Zero Runtime Overhead: Nebble compiles directly to optimized C code. You get high-level abstractions with the same performance and binary footprint as native C.
  • Strong Compile-Time Safety: Nim’s type system catches logic errors, invalid enum values, and handle-type mismatches at compile time, ensuring your app is robust before it ever reaches the watch.
  • Complete Platform Coverage: Full support for all 6 Pebble platforms—from the original Aplite to the Pebble Time Round (Chalk) and Emery.

🛠 Modern Tooling

The dedicated nebble CLI provides everything you need to develop:

  • nebble new: Scaffold new full-stack Nim projects.
  • nebble build: Automatic Nim-to-C and Nim-to-JS transpilation.
  • nebble clean: Comprehensive workspace purging of generated C, JS, and build artifacts.
  • nebble logs: Unified logging from the emulator or hardware.

📦 Installation

# Install Nebble
nimble install nebble

# Build the CLI
cd cli && nimble install_local

📖 Documentation

We’ve launched a comprehensive documentation suite to get you started:

Nebble: Type-safe, Full-Stack, Modern. Pebble development, evolved. ⌚️✨

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