If it's possible and you intended for it to be a long-term project, I would suggest looking at designing an MIR for the Python to lower to and then lowering it to Nim, and that is probably the most valuable feature you can add to Nimic. That's what Rust had to learn the hard way, and that's how LLVM works, and having an intermediate representation means your compiler is going run into a lot less edge cases during development.

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dima-quant 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Currently, Nim fits quite well with Python but there is a project to directly emit LLVM IR from Nim and MIR might be relevant there: https://github.com/arnetheduck/nlvm

	▲	YuechenLi 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, I wasn't referring to emitting LLVM IR directly from Nim, but that you should consider adding an MIR layer between your Nimic subset of Python and Nim instead of emitting Nim from Python directly. Otherwise, compilation would get difficult and adding new supported Python will get painful.