as far as some of the additional questions asked: > 1\. Is driving more adoption of Nim a meaningful goal?
that's an easy yes, but it I guess it is a rethorical question :) > 2\. If so, what are the biggest hurdles? For me the number one priority is working on **building the community** , in particular empowering the community to do more (as core devs can only do so much, but an empowered community can do a lot). From the community it comes the ecosystem and an improved narrative about what nim is about. > 3\. Is there a way to overcome them? Along those lines some specific actions that I think would be promising would be: * working towards a nim foundation (see [previous discussion](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/8525)). A foundation could foster the creation of specific official working groups on various matters (documentation, ecosystem, funding, ...) and it would allow more involved people to be officially invested by the community to tackle specific topics. * planning for in person meetings (both global and local): online is nice and useful and all, but I think meeting a lot of nim folks in person could accelerate change and help smooth out occasional frictions. I was trying to work on having [an occasion at fosdem with a nim devroom](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/9534#62633), didn't work out (we were not accepted), will try again (and still considering going to connect to some of the nim people who plan anyway to go there). On local side a plan I still have is to start a meet up in Milan. also, I try to make an effort to show up here and elsewhere and be welcoming to newcomers. often is easy to just leave a like but I guess a few more words can help. it helps also to be present on socials (twitter, fosstodon) and other places (e.g. ask and answer questions on stack overflow). > I'm going to shut up about it all now, unless someone actually wants to have > a real discussion about what can improve adoption. "Write docs" doesn't > address the issue I raised, but as I said, if there's some sort of sanctioned > Wiki, I probably will, despite the fact that I certainly don't feel welcome. I hope you will keep up the discussion and I would definitely would not want for you to feel unwelcome here or on the wiki. You are most welcome!
