@Arrrrrrrrr, this does not surprise me too much, it is definitely also true for me. It shows how well Nim is set up for programmers like me to transition from an interpreted to a compiled language.
In addition to Python, I have always wanted to learn at least one compiled language. In the recent years I have taken several attempts at learning C, C++, Java, Go, Rust and D (only one of those at each time ;) ) and have not come very far in any of those. I found that getting productive is easiest for me in Nim and the python-like syntax (which I find overrated, really) is only partly responsible for that. A really good example for this productivity is, I think, the difference between [Java](http://forum.nim-lang.org///www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_file_line_by_line#Java) and [Nim](http://forum.nim-lang.org///www.rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_file_line_by_line#Nim) for the read-a-file-line-by-line task on rosettacode. I am also able to produce Windows binaries from my Linux machine, which is awesome. Also, in my experience, the community is very approachable and responsive. Of course, all this is completely subjective.
