Comment by nepeckman

Nim is my "scripting" language of choice for any quick tools I write. Just today I needed to do some data exploration on a 1 million line CSV file. No formal data analysis, just needed to understand the shape of the data and answer a few questions. Writing the script was easy thanks to Nim's nice syntax and big standard library. My most complex query finished in a minute, most of my queries took less than 20 seconds to complete. This is all unoptimized code using the garbage collector and idiomatic language features. Nim isnt without its faults, but it is a seriously underrated language.