Thanks for asking. I had stopped looking at newer languages long time ago and I can't tell quite how I decided to check out this Nim. Perhaps its finding your well written book, Nim in Action. Nim language has this one characteristic that means a lot to me -- to be able to learn the core concepts very quickly enough to get productive in some of the routine work (back-end system interactions, distributing compiled modules to other locations, numerical/data processing). Nim won my heart in this regard hands-down.

Well, along the lines of what is already mentioned, I stumbled on web communication aspects (I like the available template system, it performs well) and ran into glitches with the mongo or postgresql drivers as I got deeper. I am glad that Nim doesn't have a Ruby-like syntax -- Nim's current type structure/syntax is its strength, IMHO.

(I wanted to contribute some money to the team but PayPal is the only option even if the site says it can take Visa etc. PayPal is something that I avoid due to past experiences)