I haven’t used nim outside of some hello world toying a few years back. Is compiling actually that fast? I thought the nim compiler compiled to C and then called gcc (or whatever system compiler), isn’t that slow in practice?

Any large nim projects that anyone can point me to would be helpful too, I’ll give the compiler a shot later today!

> Fast compile times: a full compiler rebuild takes ~12s (Rust: 15min, gcc: 30min+, clang: 1hr+, Go: 90s) [2].

The compiler is really big and self-hosted too.

For large nim projects check out: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer or https://github.com/treeform/pixie (personal faves).