There has been a lot of observation and speculation about Nim for a few years now. Seems that a lot of people follow it's progress because they like it's philosophies, but don't feel comfortable enough with it's maturity level to dive in (language stability issues and API changes can be really frustrating when you are trying to maintain a project)

I've been following nim since it's inception and I'd report myself as "never used the language" as I've only built hello-world type test programs.

I like the idea of static, compiled python but it's missing a lot of core libraries and what are there always look a bit disappointing to me. So I'm still in waiting for it to catch on phase and belive that 25% is there too!

I used it a few times before but I stopped once I realized it was a long way off from being worth using.

The lack of tooling, libraries, and numerous compiler bugs meant that it would be easier for me to write the same thing in C++ even though nim is a superior language.

I'd imagine many people came to realize this before even trying it out.

I'd assume they purposefully reached out to as many as possible, otherwise it just becomes an insular circle jerk. The people currently using the language will presumably have far fewer issues with it than people not using the language for whatever reason.