[scriptkiddy]

> Can someone give me some pointers to reading material on this.

Wish I could help you with this, but I have been out of the loop with Nim recently.

> I don't really understand why you'd want this in a compiled language.

Quick iteration in development. Not needing to manually recompile every time you make a small change.

[lloda]

or recompute the data you're working with.