No, it is not - Nim's compiler backend is extremely complex and full of cruft. I've been around Nim for 7+ years now and there's a reason the compiler was hard

No, it is not - Nim's compiler backend is extremely complex and full of cruft. I've been around Nim for 7+ years now and there's a reason the compiler was hard forked. Nim's compiler is definitely not speedy, and this is why so much effort has been spent on incremental compilation, which tmk, still isn't working - https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/19757 https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/19757.