Aside: I've tinkered with Nim a long time ago (when it was called Nimrod) and thought it was pleasant. I'd be interested to hear from anyone in the HN community that has used Nim in production. What did you use it for? How was the experience?
Some of the debug / error messages were frustrating red herrings which IIRC I was told was an area needing improvement at least at the time.
There are also compile-time superpowers like macros that just receive a parsed AST. That can be used to "re-parse" or "re-compile" external code as in https://github.com/c-blake/cligen. So, trade-offs like in all of life.
There is even a book called The Paradox Of Choice [1]. I think there is just a spectrum/distribution of human predisposition where some like to have things "standardized & packaged up for them" while others more like to invent their own rules..and enough variation within the population that people have to learn to agree to disagree more. (EDIT: and FWIW, I think this is context-modulated - the same person could be on one end of the spectrum about gardening and the other about software.)
I do feel like the syntax is far less chaotic than Perl.
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