It's so damn nice, its a shame it's never taken off the way it could. I think there's still time to make it attractive to companies, but with people's increasing use of AI I don't think anyone even cares what language their model writes in, look at the insane uptick in Rust programming.

Be it a lesson that having an adoption lever matters.

If they can get the tooling situation handled better with 3.0, Nim will be probably the best all-around programming language in my book. The only reason I tend to opt for Zig instead (and the reason the library ecosystem is pretty small) is that it just feels a little unpolished all over the place. But the core principles are just so good.

I don't mean that as an insult to Zig. Zig is amazing. But the ergonomics of Nim are just unbeatable.

Intriguing. How usable is it right now?

Nim is stack allocated by default, and you annotate types explicitly with `ref` to use the GC. Even then, the compiler elides reference counting using borrow checks, you can choose different GC options, and the GC isn't stop the world like most. You don't need to touch reference counting if you don't want to, and Nim fits embedded dev pretty well for that reason.