I couldn't agree with you more. I'm familiar with Julia and I would say on the 
language level, Julia shares some similarities with Nim (having GC, no strong 
OOP, metaprogramming with macros). There is no large companies behind Julia 
either, but it is more popular than Nim even though it's younger. The main 
reason, I believe, is that Julia focuses on scientific computing. Focusing on a 
specific domain is not just good for developing the language itself, but also 
good for marketing. 

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