Does anyone use Nim? It seems like a promising language to learn but no one really talks about it so wondering what the catch is.

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It's on the list. From what I understand—in addition to needing to overcome the hurdle of gaining traction over more established languages—the catch is, lack of marketing, smaller ecosystem and community, and limited backing etc. Heres what the community survey says:

"Approximately three quarters of the respondents use Nim (40% frequently, 36% occasionally), while the remaining quarter is divided between people who never used Nim (7%) and people who stopped using Nim (17%).

Of those people who don’t use Nim, the most frequent reasons are: 'Nim seems immature, not ready for production,' 'Nim doesn’t have libraries I need,' 'Nim doesn’t have enough learning materials,' and 'Nim seems too risky for production,' in that order."

https://nim-lang.org/blog/2025/01/23/community-survey-results-2024.html

Installing...

Nice. Interested to hear how you go.

Too few semicolons

Looks neat tho

I’ve heard great things about Nim its performance and clean syntax sound amazing! But yeah, the lack of buzz is weird. Is it just niche, or is there something holding it back? Anyone here using it for real projects?