I've been a language geek for quite a long time, and I've been lurking near Nim(rod) for a long time. Why I haven't used (or endorsed its use) before? I can think of some superficial technical reasons (lack of libraries, case insensitivity, no REPL) but more and more I fear that the real reason is much more stupid: lack of marketing.
Rust has had brilliant marketing without really offering anything significant over what Nim has been already for a long time, but still it hooked me. Getting to 1.0 will help with this a lot, I think. If the newruntime experiment is a success, that could be another great attractor towrds the Rust/C++ crowd, I think. A working and supported REPL would also be quite awesome when both using and selling the language. But as I implied earlier, I think technically the language has been good enough for a long time already.
