Nim is a systems programming language [1] just with very decent ergonomics. Interfacing to C/C++ is trivial (just a declaration) and to others (e.g. Rust) is p

Nim is a systems programming language [1] just with very decent ergonomics. Interfacing to C/C++ is trivial (just a declaration) and to others (e.g. Rust) is possible. E.g., there is code that interfaces to a custom Linux kernel module for fast file tree walking. [2] { That same github account has several other "systems programming in Nim projects" - low overhead syslogd, color ps/color top, ls, fast symspell/edit distances, a prototype search engine, an alternative to on-disk protobuffers with online random access, etc. There are also a lot over at https://github.com/treeform https://github.com/treeform and surely many others. } You can also export Nim impls to Python easily, though I very much agree Python's time in the sun is over (and I say this having been a user since ~1993). It now seems more a generator of problems/complexity than of simplifying solutions. Nim can also compile to Javascript letting you do both front- & back-ends in Nim. Science is an almost unbounded fractal set of human investigations. Nim is usable for science (e.g. ask questions here [3]), but the ecosystem is undeniably much smaller than Julia or Python's. (Julia's is much smaller than Python's, and for some things R can be much bigger, actually.) So, a "depends what you need" caveat just has a much stronger "caveat force" here. What "large, multi-dev" needs is honestly harder to say/more subjective/maybe manager-subjective. If it is "cheap, just out of school programmers with which to replace expensive, departing mess-makers", I think Java may have always had more plentiful options than Python. ;-) This is closer to a human-organization-complete kind of concern and almost intrinsically "very dependent upon circumstances/context". I just didn't want to ignore it. At least Stefan Salewski [4] thinks Nim is suitable or teaching people introductory programming, though. [1] https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ [2] https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/cligen/dents.nim#L073 https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/cligen/dents.n... [3] https://app.element.io/#/room/#nim-science:envs.net https://app.element.io/#/room/#nim-science:envs.net [4] https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html