> Nim generates native dependency-free executables, not dependent on a virtual machine, which are small and allow easy redistribution.

That's... awesome. I've written a handful of little tools and scripts in Python for different (often non-technical) clients to use, but I've never found an easy way to package them up as a "click this icon to run the program" type of thing. If that's a solved problem with Nim I'm pretty much already sold.

However, the result, even for small scripts, is not what I would qualify as "small" :)

I also like pex (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex) which allows to bundle a whole venv as a python script. Less heavy than nuitka, doesn't make it stand alone though, but very handy for quick and dirty scripts I want to one shot on my servers.

That doesn't remove any merit to nim. Such a cool project.