I confirm that hints are printed on Nim devel (0.19.9), but they are **not**
printed on stable version (I tried 0.19.6 and 0.19.4).
I also don't get a hint, and I have a choosenim-installed compiler which had no
troubles at all. I don't know Nim well enough to say if something's wrong, but
it looks wrong to me.
This little program
const xyz = 123
var foobar:int
echo "hello world"
Run
lives in /tmp/testit.nim. Compiling (on an up-to-date Arch Linux system)
doesn't produce an "unused symbols" hint, despite explicitly turning it on (I
_think_ it's on by default):