It seems to be closer to pythran than Nuitka. Mainly in that Lpython only supports a subset of python and focuses on performance of numeric code. Nuitka focuses

It seems to be closer to pythran than Nuitka. Mainly in that Lpython only supports a subset of python and focuses on performance of numeric code. Nuitka focuses primarily on being able to compile all of python, and has performance only as a secondary goal.