> But I don’t see why the mathematical nature of Project Euler problems could > explain why there are so few Nim users compared to users of other programming > languages. Except if, for some reason, Nim users hate mathematics
I think your observation and explanation was fully correct: Compared to other languages Nim community is still tiny. But that is not such a serious problem. Since 6 months Nim is strongly supported by Status corp. so even when Araq will retire or hit by the bus, Nim will not die immediately. I would even bet that status has put a live insurance policy on Araq. So my confidence has grown in the last half year, and I guess not for me alone. That fact may explain the more than 100 people participating in 2018 AoC. For other measures of community size one may regard number of nimble packages or github repositories, but due to the large fraction of garbage (plain forked, nearly empty or outdated ones, or plain c2nim wrappers) that may again give a too positive impression. On the other hand number of debian Nim installations may give a too low indication as many users just install from git sources, and for number of git downloads I think that has absolutely no relevance as for example gintro packages shows one to 2 downloads daily for more than one year now, while no one is really using that package. So that must be all bots.
