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There is very little chance I could sell a CEO on using Nim. The fact of the matter is that the community and ecosystem are parts of the entire platform and the platform matters a huge deal when you're betting your business on it. Accident or not.


Not disagreeing with you, but that only matters if you need to sell a CEO on your choice of language. Many of us don't, and every language had to cross that chasm somehow. Once upon a time, there were plenty of CEOs who didn't believe you should use Java for anything that mattered. Ditto for Javascript. Most relevantly, ditto for Go. If size of the existing community and ecosystem were the main criterion for choosing a language, Go would still be in the same bucket as Nim. Somebody has to use a language because of its own inherent strength before the CEOs can be convinced.




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