Comment by PMunch

Nitpick, but it actually compiles down to C. Nim works at a higher abstraction and the compilation is a one-way street. But what is more important is that it generates efficient C code, it looks ugly, and it's not something you would ever dream of writing yourself, but it's been optimised to give fast run-times. Often times in benchmarks the Nim code with optimisations comes out as fast as the C code with optimisations, even in some cases beating it.