I personally think that nim targetting C and C++ with GCC and Clang is a good
thing. C and C++ are super portable languages that are supported on almost
every platform. On top of this, we get to leverage the hundreds of thousands of
hours of monumental effort by GCC and Clang contributors to Nim's advantage. We
get all the GCC and Clang optimizations by default. I'm sure araq and the other
contributors are great programmers, but a standalone Nim compiler would very
likely never be as robust as GCC and Clang. Gcc has multiple decades of
constant improvement behind it. A Nim standalone compiler can't hope to match
that.
