Comment by dima-quant

The comparison with Cython is indeed very relevant as it is currently the standard for making Python modules and it has greatly improved support for the standard Python syntax over the last few years, e.g. the type hints. However, it still can not produce an executable independent from the Python runtime. Besides the manual memory management available in Cython, Nimic also provides deterministic memory management (ARC/ORC) rather than the Python's reference counting for the compiled code. Nim intermediate code is easier to debug than Cython produced C and the code can also compile to LLVM IR. I'm not an expert on Cython, does it have the modern systems language functionality at level it is present in Nim?