I've been using Linux since the late 90s and case sensitivity has never been an issue for me with Nim since I started using it in 2016. This is FUD and fake news.
Apart from some syntactic commonalities and expressiveness, Nim doesn't have a lot in common with Python.
The idiomatic approach to solving problems in Python and Nim are different. I came from a strong Python background and now I prefer Nim to Python as a general purpose language and especially for writing scripts.
Nim is highly productive and with excellent type safety.
The compiler is relatively fast though maybe not as fast as D and certainly not as fast as Go. The compiler is a lot faster than Rust/Crystal/Pony and there is current work being done on incremental builds which should make it even faster.
If you take a look at these benchmarks the Nim and D fastest versions are faster than Rust and on par with the fastest C++.
Significantly, the fastest D version has double the lines of code as the fastest garbage collected version of Nim though the Nim version performs slightly faster.
The fastest garbage collected version of Nim has exactly the same lines of code as Python.
I found getting F# dev environment set up on Ubuntu was super easy. That said that I found Merlin in Vim to be better than Jetbrains Rider. With Ocaml/Reason you should be able deploy via native binary. The build times and deployment story are going to be similar to Golang on the backend - if it works. With F# you have to deploy the CLR too.
Can't agree with that. Having used both Lua and Moonscript quite a bit I think Moonscript is what most dynamic scripting languages should be. Simple, succinct and does what you need for a scripting language.
Yes time will tell. Its basically like giving someone Jedi powers with the risk they could fall to the dark side while Golang is like Han Solo just getting things done in a much less sophisticated yet practical manner.