diff --git a/api/main.go b/api/main.go
index 446f3e4..1273576 100644
--- a/api/main.go
+++ b/api/main.go
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ func Execute(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
         "lua",
         "nasm", "asm",
         "nasm64", "asm64",
+        "nim",
         "node", "javascript", "js",
         "perl", "pl",
         "php",
diff --git a/lxc/executors/nim b/lxc/executors/nim
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c6e6caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lxc/executors/nim
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+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/tests/test.nim b/lxc/tests/test.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd50e25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lxc/tests/test.nim
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+echo("good")
diff --git a/lxc/versions b/lxc/versions
index c53e779..31bcd39 100755
--- a/lxc/versions
+++ b/lxc/versions
@@ -69,6 +69,9 @@ echo 'nasm'
 lxc-attach --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "nasm -version"
 echo '---'
 
+echo 'nim'
+lxc-attack --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "nim -v | head -n1"
+
 echo 'node'
 lxc-attach --clear-env -n piston -- /bin/bash -l -c "node --version"
 echo '---'
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 94e3b44..ca014db 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -240,6 +240,18 @@ 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