http://nim-lang.org/%|%Nim%|% (formerly Nimrod) is a statically typed, imperative programming language that tries to give the programmer ultimate power without compromising runtime efficiency. It is designed to rival C in execution speed.

It supports soft realtime garbage collection on thread-local heaps and uses asynchronous message passing between threads. There are language features for parallelizing functions via a binding to [OpenMP].  It has system programming features such as direct access to memory.  Pointers to garbage collected memory are distinguished from pointers to manually managed memory.

It compiles to commented C code. The compiler can create standard shared libraries linkable from C programs. It can also be made to output JavaScript, C++ or Objective C. 

The Nim distribution contains an officially supported wrapper[https://github.com/nim-lang/tcl] for Tcl that makes calling Tcl code from Nim code easy. Example:

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# Example to embed TCL in Nim

import tcl, os

const
  myScript = """puts "Hello, World - In quotes" """
  myScript2 = """
package require Tk
pack [entry .e -textvar e -width 50]
bind .e <Return> {
set e [regsub { *=.*} $e ""] ;# remove evaluation (Chris)
catch {expr [string map {/ *1./} $e]} res
append e " = $res"
}
"""

FindExecutable(getAppFilename())
var interp = CreateInterp()
if interp == nil: quit("cannot create TCL interpreter")
if Init(interp) != TCL_OK:
  quit("cannot init interpreter")
if tcl.Eval(interp, myScript) != TCL_OK:
  quit("cannot execute script.tcl")
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