[pjmlp]

You could have written the same about D, Haxe, Roc, or any other language in this space.

Every year millions of university students design new languages across the globe on their compiler classes.

To productise any of them, there is a whole ecosystem that needs to be added on top, editors, graphical debugging, packages, AI tooling....

[dom96]

Yep, precisely this. There are many languages out there that would have remained niche if it wasn't for a company sponsoring their development. Go is one of those. Rust too, and it just barely managed to get the critical mass it needed, likely because Mozilla had nowhere near the might of Google.

Nim had a real chance at gaining a foothold, it just needed a company to back it. I think sadly that ship has sailed by now.