[gh02t]

Isn't the point that if pure Python was faster they wouldn't need to be written in other [compiled] languages? Having dealt with Cython it's not bad, but if I could write more of my code in native Python my development experience would be a lot simpler.

Granted we're still very far from that and probably won't ever reach it, but there definitely seems to be a lot of progress.

[__MatrixMan__]

Since Nim compiles to C, a middle step worth being aware of is Nim + nimporter which isn't anywhere near "just python" but is (maybe?) closer than "compile a C binary and call it from python".

Or maybe it's just syntactic sugar around that. But sugar can be nice.