How to promote Nim? Well, where does Nim shine? * (1) Write a compiler in Nim - for Nim. This is not a pun, because .... * (2) Every compiler can be written in Nim, it is by far the most convenient language for that particular task. So, with advantage, a compiler for Swift could be written in Nim, or a compiler for Haskell , or Haxe, or whatever. * (3) Small projects and projects for small systems e.g. microcontrollers.
But that doesn't mean that Nim is already well prepared for aggressive marketing. What to do then? * "Freeze" Nim now or at a Nim 1.8 level. Remove every unstable thing from the language. Even the "*" is problematic and dangerous, it should be possible to write Nim modules without the star (anything gets exported). But then, if a module does not import a specific module, it should not be able to get (sudden and unexpected) field access to non-imported types. * Add C++ like module descriptors. They would supercede Nims current visibility system and , later , allow for separate compilation Where Nim does not shine and therefore would require further development * Integration in heterogeneous environments. This is a very different thing and recent Nim is not expressive enough to handle uncertainty * Stackless Nim , Nim functions with state: would end in a "Fortranized" Nim and basically break Nims let/var (implicit copy) design forever. It will be the same with highly performant data processing
