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Nim is fast, powerful and has a lightweight syntax. I used it for a lot for hobby projects. I wrote program in Nim that started bringing in some money. But soon as feature requests from customers started coming in, I had to rewrite it.

The tooling for Nim and library ecosystem is just not there. It's so much more productive to work with Python, .NET or JVM. I decided to rewrite it in Kotlin because JVM gave me similar performance.

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I am curious and wondering if you could elaborate on what you ended up making and why picked nim over lets say python, was the core usage something that was performance based or did it really fit the nim feature set better than most languages?

Would you say nim is good for prototyping or would you say it was a waste of time since you ended up having to port it for tooling?

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