What's stopping Nim from going mainstream? (And how to fix it?)

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I'd agree on the points that the nim environment is quite poor. Gives the 
impression of a language that is not adequately supported. To interest people 
in nim you need to find the pain points in other languages and show how nim 
solves these issues (at zero cost to the programmer). I'd also argue that these 
days, you probably also need to be providing input transpilers. E.g. If I can 
convert my existing code to nim at zero cost its much easier to compare and 
contrast.