It's worth pointing out that Nim is going to cache all of the compilation up to the linking step. If you want to include the full compilation time, you'd need to add --forceBuild to the Nim compiler.

(Since a lot of the stuff you'd use this for doesn't change often, I don't think this invalidates the "point", since it makes "nim r" run very quickly, but still)

There's also the Nim interpreter built into the compiler, "NimScript", which can be invoked like:

  #!/usr/bin/env -S nim e --hints:off
  echo "Hello from Nim!"

The cool thing is that, without --forceBuild, Nim + TCC (as a linker) has a faster startup time than NimScript. But if you include compile time, NimScript wins.