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by nimmer 1722 days ago
> It's primarily a testament to how simply mind bogglingly slow Python is

No, Nim is truly among the top fastest languages when writing idiomatic code as shown in many benchmarks.

> But Nim is only one of a whole suite of languages that easily cruise to a 10x performance win over Python

...while also being very friendly to Python programmers, intuitive and expressive. Unlike many other languages.