If you find this article interesting and are curious about Nim then you would probably also be curious about https://github.com/c-blake/cligen https://github.co

If you find this article interesting and are curious about Nim then you would probably also be curious about https://github.com/c-blake/cligen https://github.com/c-blake/cligen That allows adding just 1-line to a module to add a pretty complete CLI and then a string per parameter to properly document options (assuming an existing API using keyword arguments). It's also not hard to compile & link a static ELF binary with Nim.. I do it with MUSL libc on Linux all the time. I just toss into my ~/.config/nim/nim.cfg: @if musl: # make nim c -d:musl .. foo static-link `foo` with musl cc = gcc # --opt:size trades more speed gcc.exe = "musl-gcc" # NOTE: This also works as a .. gcc.linkerexe = "musl-gcc" #..per-module foo.nim.cfg passL = "-static -s" @end Lisp is often cited as one of Nim's inspirations. EDIT: https://nim-lang.org/ https://nim-lang.org/ has much more detail and there are over 50 small CLI programs at https://github.com/c-blake/bu https://github.com/c-blake/bu as rather extended examples. Using that musl approach I get tiny little 100 kB ELF executables that would work on practically any Linux you can `scp` them to with none of the boilerplate/language limits/hassles or speed-limits of, say, Go and run-time start-up times on the order of 100 microseconds. There are all kinds of great libs in Nim, too like @V1ndaar's https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer https://github.com/SciNim/Measuremancer or all sorts of goodies over at https://nimble.directory/ https://nimble.directory/