Nim has impressive compile-time reflection which with its syntax macro system can (some of the time) get you similar powers to Python's dynamic reflection. E.g

Nim has impressive compile-time reflection which with its syntax macro system can (some of the time) get you similar powers to Python's dynamic reflection. E.g., https://github.com/c-blake/cligen https://github.com/c-blake/cligen instead of `autocommand` or `click` or `argh` or you name the automatic CLI generator, only with full C-like speed for your programs and a very low effort FFI to C. People have done web frameworks, too, but I do not know them well enough to compare to Django. Perhaps someone else could follow-up. Compile times are not the 25-50 ms of a Python interpreter startup, but they are similar to the 250-500 ms of a Go or D compile, at least for small light on metaprogramming loops kinds of programs, and with, say, the TinyC tcc backend. Of course, big frameworks take a long time to import (or to compile). So, your comparison mileage may vary. And once "ready to go" and finished a Nim program can start up in sub-millisecond time like any C program (esp. if statically linked).