I've been very happy to see this sort of activity around Nim recently.[1]
Developing in Nim feels so productive that I'm starting to use it in place of Perl/Ruby/Python for smaller "scripting" tasks. As a bonus, I end up with a portable executable as if I had written my tool in C. This makes it just about perfect (for me) as a true general purpose language.
I've been very happy to see this sort of activity around Nim recently.[1]
Developing in Nim feels so productive that I'm starting to use it in place of Perl/Ruby/Python for smaller "scripting" tasks. As a bonus, I end up with a portable executable as if I had written my tool in C. This makes it just about perfect (for me) as a true general purpose language.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17710690