What makes Nim practical?

1 · Dennis Felsing · Jan. 22, 2015, 11 p.m.
In my last post I showed what makes the Nim programming language special. Today, let’s consider Nim from another angle: What makes Nim a practical programming language? Binary Distribution Programs written in interpreted languages like Python are difficult to distribute. Either you require Python (in a specific version even) to be installed already, or you ship it with your program. This even causes some to reconsider Python as a teaching language. How does Nim work around this problem? For star...