diff --git a/api/main.go b/api/main.go
index acd0f69..d328363 100644
--- a/api/main.go
+++ b/api/main.go
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ func Execute(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
         "lua",
         "nasm", "asm",
         "nasm64", "asm64",
-        "nim",
         "node", "javascript", "js",
         "perl", "pl",
         "php",
diff --git a/lxc/execute b/lxc/execute
index 704202f..dd3b3c5 100755
--- a/lxc/execute
+++ b/lxc/execute
@@ -90,9 +90,6 @@ case "$lang" in
 "nasm64" | "asm64")
     bin=nasm64
     ;;
-"nim")
-    bin=nim
-    ;;
 "node" | "js" | "javascript")
     bin=node
     ;;
diff --git a/lxc/executors/nim b/lxc/executors/nim
deleted file mode 100755
index c6e6caf..0000000
--- a/lxc/executors/nim
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-cd /tmp/$2
-timeout -s KILL 10 nim --hints:off c code.code
-runuser runner$1 -c "cd /tmp/$2 ; cat args.args | xargs -d '\n' timeout -s KILL 3 ./code"
-
diff --git a/lxc/test_all_lxc b/lxc/test_all_lxc
index 8e7130c..c7f0b28 100755
--- a/lxc/test_all_lxc
+++ b/lxc/test_all_lxc
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ echo 'testing asm 32 bit'
 ../execute asm test.nasm
 echo 'testing asm 64 bit'
 ../execute asm64 test64.nasm
-echo 'testing nim'
-../execute nim test.nim
 echo 'testing php'
 ../execute php test.php
 echo 'testing perl'
diff --git a/lxc/versions b/lxc/versions
index 12b5f76..cbfd824 100755
--- a/lxc/versions
+++ b/lxc/versions
@@ -69,10 +69,6 @@ echo 'nasm'
 lxc-attach --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "nasm -version"
 echo '---'
 
-echo 'nim'
-lxc-attach --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "nim -v | head -n1"
-echo '---'
-
 echo 'node'
 lxc-attach --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "node --version"
 echo '---'
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index a7ccaff..d66f8e3 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ source /opt/.profile
 
 # install paradoc
 # this is not a binary, it is a python module
-# therefore it cannot be run directly as it requires python3 to be installed 
+# therefore it cannot be run directly as it requires python3 to be installed
 cd /opt && mkdir paradoc && cd paradoc
 git clone https://github.com/betaveros/paradoc.git
 echo 'export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/paradoc/paradoc' >> /opt/.profile
@@ -249,18 +249,6 @@ echo 'export DENO_INSTALL="/opt/.deno"' >> /opt/.profile
 echo 'export PATH="$DENO_INSTALL/bin:$PATH"' >> /opt/.profile
 source /opt/.profile
 
-# install nim
-# final binary: /opt/nim/bin/nim
-# get version: /opt/nim/bin/nim -v
-cd /opt && mkdir nim && cd nim
-wget https://nim-lang.org/download/nim-1.4.0-linux_x64.tar.xz
-unxz nim-1.4.0-linux_x64.tar.xz
-tar -xf nim-1.4.0-linux_x64.tar
-cd nim-1.4.0
-./install.sh /opt
-echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/nim/bin' >> /opt/.profile
-source /opt/.profile
-
 # create runnable users and apply limits
 for i in {1..150}; do
     useradd -M runner$i