nim truly deserves more love,it is my lang to pick up this year,safe c++ with python syntax,great combination to me,and it is also mature,cross platform,production ready.
Yeah. That is my goal as well. I struggled choosing between learning Rust, Zig, Ocaml or F# and landed at Nim
Given the compilation step to C allows nice FFI and using all kinds of compilers
I think it's a pretty nice prog.lang (PL). You may be very happy. Though nothing is perfect, there is much to recommend it. By now I've written over 150 command-line tools with https://github.com/c-blake/cligen . A few are at https://github.com/c-blake/bu or https://github.com/c-blake/nio { screw 1970s COBOL-esque SQL ;-) } or in their own repos. I use quite a few every day..(EDIT: some even dozens of times per day - "production" is more an aspect of code than a PL itself - e.g., is poorly tested Python code "production").
If it helps, I like to use the "mob branch" [0] of TinyCC/tcc [1] for really fast builds in debugging mode, but this may only work if you toss `@if tcc: mm:markAndSweep @end` or similar in your nim.cfg. Then I have a little `@if r: ...` so I can say `nim c -d:r foo` for a release build with gcc/whatever.
That's quite an impressive amount of cmdline tools.