Nim is not transpiled. Transpilation means translation between equal levels of abstraction. The C code generated by Nim is not something most people would do anything with.
FriendOfFalcons
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I like Nim and many concepts of it with the big point of discussion being that function names get normalized (helloWorld === hello_world).
But I feel like that Nim is a language without purpose. It's all nice and cool on paper, but it has no use case where I think "I have to do it in Nim".
Go is known for making small, fast startup web apps, Python for making small one time tasks or Data work, Rust low level programming if you like functional programming, PHP if you want yo setup a website as fast as possible.
But Nim doesn't have this, it doesn't have a library that's better than in all other languages. It's nice but what for?
The "microsoft rival", as it is called in the headline, is alfaview, a company that offers GDPR compliant video conferencing software.
And they complain that Teams gets bundled with Office by default which givea this an advantage over other (their) product.
Problem solving is basically patent. After all what is stopping a megacorp from using the same solution but in such a way that doesn't copy the exact work? Software for example, with current IP law, clean room reverse engineering is completely legal.
Think of how Tribute of Panem and Divergent almost have the exact same story beats but are still separate IP. IP protects singular works, like authors and their books, artists and their work.
I only know of a handful of cases where branchless programming is actually being used. And those are really niche ones.
So no. The average programmer really doesn't need to use it, probably ever.
And where did Rust, Python etc get their huge community from in the first place? From being jack of all trades? No, because they were the best fit for their use case. After they established themselves there, they became widely good.