An optimistic but reasonable growth goal for Nim's takeoff is a threefold popularity increase per year for the next few years. If that was so, it would roughly mean this a year from now:
* 10,000 [github stars](https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages). * 10,000 [+"nim programming"](https://www.google.com/search?q=%2B"nim%20programming";) search results. * 330 people in #Nim on FreeNode. That would be a big increase in growth compared to the past, but if that comes to pass then 2017 will indeed be our break-through year. I'll bump this a year from now to see if we come close. ;) At that rate we'd probably hit [TIOBE Top 100](http://forum.nim-lang.org///tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) in 2018. The growth itself won't be linear of course, but it's a more reasonable estimate than "poof and we're Java". :P
