Comment by alberth

Nim is in part less popular because its BDFL, - isn't concerned with Nim becoming a mega popular language; it's enough that it has a successful user base to justify the effort/jobs developing it - believes that marketing is not required as people will choose Nim based off its superior features alone. (This is in large part true up-to people learning it exists, which is where marketing is valuable)

There are genuine shortcomings, of course. Every language has them.

It is something of a unicorn though. It's so pleasant to use at many levels of the stack from bare-metal to applications. People even use it for games.

I had to think hard about this, and I couldn't come up with something so obvious that it would be a no brainer to not use Nim.

__MatrixMan__ and SJMG have good points. If it's anything, it wouldn't be a technical issue in the language. It's like a Tesla when it first came out; it was obvious that EVs are the future, but they had less investment, less adoption, not enough charging stations, shorter range, and not a lot of certified shops for repairs. So naturally a lot of people held back until it became mainstream.

The issue is, will it become mainstream one day? Maybe, maybe not. But I'm betting on it myself.

If Nim went to the olympics, it would get a bronze or silver metal in five or six different areas, which is very impressive indeed. I think it's overlooked because gold is what draws attention.

If you wear enough hats to appreciate Nim in more than one of its dimensions, your attention is necessarily split enough to not evangelize so loudly for it in any one. People don't want practical, they want provocative.