[hugs]

I feel the same way. I wish Nim was more popular, but I'm not letting that stop me from using it. It's already extremely useful enough. I spent the last few weeks writing Nim code (specifically an OpenCV binding that wraps just the C++ libraries I need). Nim let's me write fast, compiled, "Pythonic" code. And the INim interactive shell let's me program "1 line at a time" the same way I would with the Python REPL or JavaScript console.

[danielEM]

That pythonic syntax is something that prevents Nim to gain more popularity. I think it would be a great move from Nim side to introduce dual syntax support: python like and c/d/java/JavaScript/typescript/go/rust/zig ... like

[cb321]

You can often/usually put ()s around things if you want. It's just an uncommon style. (Much like you can format bracey code like lisp with the close brackets bunched up all at the end of one line instead of one per line, but people rarely do.)

[hugs]

And yet, it didn't hold Python back, based on the current TIOBE index rankings.

[lucidrains]

same, I am too old to really care if others cannot see this as nearly the perfect language