What kind of stuff is particularly popular among Nim users compared to communities for other languages?
What kind of stuff do the people working on Nim want to use it / see it used for?
Thanks to its approach to GC, you can impose a limit on the time to spend on GC between ticks, so no unpredictable performance stuttering.
I see it as having nice "functional-ish" syntax like Python, but with static types.
"As friendly as python or ruby, but compiles to binary for ease of deployment and speed" is currently an under-served market niche.
Rust, Go and Swift are all candidates for the space (with the current defacto standard of friendliness in compiled languages being c++), but I find none is quite a match for me.
Yet, Nim has a tiny memory and storage footprint and runs on microcontrollers thanks to GCC, which makes it ideal for IoT stuff.
Yeah, I don't have any sound technical reasons for not using Go, I just find it to be somewhat claustrophobic to use. To paraphrase someone else, when I code in Go I feel like Rob Pike is standing over my shoulder muttering "why would you want to do that?" every 10 minutes or so.