> > Hint: 311366 LOC; 40.997 sec; 2.2GiB peakmem > > is a dream in my world
That's just half the story - i.e. converting Nim to C, in a single thread, in 40s. The other half, compiling those C files in parallel - on 8 CPU cores - takes 2m 30s. "cloc" reports 1,055,542 lines of C code in "nimcache". Yes, the generated C is that verbose and hairy. And don't get me started on having to read it to understand what's going on... > Nim's syntax might not be as off putting as you think I'm complaining about the implementation, not the syntax. Those look like sum types, but are actually generics in disguise: <https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#generics-type-classes> So they're only compile-time constructs and convert any procedure having parameters of those fake types into generic procedures.
