Sounds like the last programmer has left your client in a bit of a pickle. Nim, 
while being a fantastic language, unfortunately doesn't have the fame and 
userbase that some other languages enjoy. Because of this you will have a hard 
time finding a large pool of Nim programmers to pick from. On the upside Nim is 
fairly easy to learn, especially if you have some relevant programming 
knowledge to draw from (personally I found that C and Python was a good 
starting point). Instead of looking for Nim programmers I would therefore 
advise your client to look for programmers willing or wanting to learn a new 
language. Of course not having any Nim programmers employed already to learn 
from might make this a bit trickier, but getting help from the live chat and 
forums if the documentation doesn't suffice will already help immensely. As a 
bonus he will likely end up with curious and flexible programmers which are the 
kind of people who will teach themselves new programming languages for fun. Of 
course if the situation is dire and he'd want to bring people up to speed 
faster it would be possible to post a job listing in the #jobs channel for a 
remote person to teach Nim and act as a mentor to the programmers he wants to 
employ. Or if he's able and willing he could even look for remote hires there 
as well.

The Nim programming language is, as you will hopefully soon see, a very 
productive language. The combination of a simple syntax paired with great 
performance and an almost unparalleled flexibility really makes it a gem. 
Finding developers will be harder than more mainstream languages, but hopefully 
these developers will have a great time and be very productive.

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