> Side Note: Why don’t I ever hear about Nim anymore??? It’s version 1.68 (and presumably stable), has very approachable syntax, claims great performance, provides a package manager, and allows the GC to be turned off (much like Dlang). What gives?

I don't know if it's still the case. But there were issues with Nim executables being incorrectly flagged as viruses in Windows. ^1

1.https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/17820