Sorry for nitpicking ... ;-) > > It's not that Nim is fast, it's that Nim does not have "optimization walls." > > Great quote! Can we put it on the website? It says in one sentence what I've > always tried to express.
If I was completely new to Nim, this sounded to me like "Idiomatic Nim isn't fast, but if you jump through enough hoops you can get it fast." ;-) For me "a language is fast" if idiomatic code in that language (without or little focus on optimization) is about as fast as idiomatic C (again, with little focus on optimization). If this applies to Nim (which seems to be true), you can say "it's fast" instead of saying "It's not that Nim is fast". So, yes, the point about no "optimization walls" is good, but without more context the sentence may give a wrong impression.
