I do want Nim to compete with Rust. I think it's a mistake to chase every feature it has when we are so early to a 1.0 release. Even if Nim gets rid of GC and exceptions, Rust will have had a large lead on Nim. We need to distinguish ourselves from Rust, not copy its every feature.
By chasing Rust you're also pushing away those users that want a systems programming language that offers a good balance between zero-cost abstractions and ease-of-use. I started using Nim because I wanted an alternative to Python and there are many others just like me. A GC and exceptions are familiar to us. > Where do you think Nim should position itself in the programming language > market? As a fast statically-typed and highly portable Python. This forum is a good example of this, Nim is running in your browser and communicating with a server that is also written in Nim.
