> It's a pitty that some big company/big tech like Mozilla doesn't support Nim 
> team,

I think it'll be the long slow path for Nim, unless it gets a "killer app" like 
Ruby on Rails. Python took many years to peculate before the data science stuff 
really kicked it off.

> Rust crates have 95000+ packages and Nimble 2000+, I hope someday the Nim 
> count grows very much.

I had to learn Rust for a work project recently and while there are 90,000+ 
crates out there so many of them were just to work around limitations in Rust 
itself or it's really limited stdlib. It was frustrating spending hours 
evaluating crates, many with almost no documentation, to try and solve some 
simple task. :/

Doing pretty much anything in Rust requires adding a crate or two. I'm not 
really exaggerating either -- there are probably half a dozen or more [crates 
for initializing 
arrays](https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/array-initialization-rust/). The 
traits system also encourages lots of crates just to provide the trait 
scaffolding.

Rust definitely still has the advantage in ecosystem, but I don't think it's 
nearly as large as the 2k vs 95k makes it seem. 

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