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Nim compiles to C and then runs GCC (not LLVM) to compile the binary. Overall, it's much faster than Go and Rust.

I get that Nim can be faster than Go but I don't see how it can be faster than Rust, could you please elaborate as to why?

They probably mean the compilation is much faster than Rust.

I was referring to compilation time... given the question.

Is transpiled C readable?

It is. It's just not very pleasant to read due to the autogenerated variable names.

If you disable all runtime checks, like integer overflows, range checks, etc..., stack traces and debug information (-d:danger) it's readable yes.