"middle-of-the-road" sounds a bit unfair. Nim compile and execution times are closer to C/C++ than most languages, maybe in the 10 percentile. Its expressivene

"middle-of-the-road" sounds a bit unfair. Nim compile and execution times are closer to C/C++ than most languages, maybe in the 10 percentile. Its expressiveness is, arguably, close to Python. It compiles to C, Objective-C, javascript, which many other languages do not. The C target runs even on arduino boards.