> the sentence may give a wrong impression. Indeed. And again I have the perfect wording in my book :-)
"Nim is fast. Generally performance is very close to other high performance languages as C or C++. There are some exceptions still — other languages may have libraries or applications that are tuned for performance for many years, while similar Nim applications are less tuned for performance yet, or maybe are more written with a priority of short and clean code or runtime safety."