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?
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.
I have some great fun playing Pokémon RomHacks like Unbound or GS Chronicles.
Otherwise I started playing the original Mega Man Battle Network titles for the GBA.
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.