[cb321]

While Nim has of course evolved, it was first released publicly in 2008, and I believe began in private around 2003..2004. Nim is also safe [1] and competes fine with C/C++ across the board, IMO { as do many other PLs. }.

[1] https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html

[mamcx]

I understand, and I don't say Rust was first, instead, that having high-profile new langs make people interested in new langs (like nim), because it draw attention to that...

[cb321]

Fair enough. I thought your text was only vaguely suggestive of an alternate timeline, and was just clarifying (and almost said so). :-)