Hey I come from Python too and I just want to put out there both that Nim is a normal language - you can use it without templates or macros (you might end up using someone else's macro because some stdlib or library is implemented as one, but you don't have to write them yourself) - but also that Nim's macros are quite easy to understand!

They are just functions that take an AST tree, modify that AST or produce a new AST and return it. Its just normal Nim code working on an AST object. That's it! I wrote a small blog article about them when I first learned about them: http://blog.ldlework.com/a-cursory-look-at-meta-programming-...

I encourage you to conquer your fears!