[planetis]

Actually it is possible, Nim compiles to C and is a viable alternative to CPython.

nimpy https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy PyGotham talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVgNVJdizHg another blog post: https://robert-mcdermott.gitlab.io/posts/speeding-up-python-...

[turbinerneiter]

This doesn't make existing python code bases faster. You have to rewrite in nim.

[planetis]

Yeah (rewrite) just the hotpaths like you would with Cython. Also there is https://github.com/Pebaz/Nimporter which makes it easier.