I think Nim is great for small CLIs. Some examples are over at: https://github.com/c-blake/bu https://github.com/c-blake/bu . To quantify "small", using tools

I think Nim is great for small CLIs. Some examples are over at: https://github.com/c-blake/bu https://github.com/c-blake/bu . To quantify "small", using tools themselves in bu/ (and Zsh *): wc -l --total=never **.nim|cols 1|cstats ms q.05 q.95 75.5 +- 5.7,22.5,175.25 So, around 1..2 pages for a 70-row terminal window, with a 5th & 95th Parzen interpolated quantiles of 22.5 and 175.25 lines.