> I don't want to write all of my stack in a cloud programming language. Especially one that is completely new and not cross-compatible with any other language. This isn't just a small thing -- it's a complete dealbreaker. There's no tools, no libraries. It's been a decade since Nim has started development and look at its progress now with so much interest behind it. Creating PLs and compilers follows the 80/20% rule.. it will take mountains of work to even make the compiler truly optimized and usable, and that's a basic prerequisite.

I think this is especially important in this space. If I use Terraform, in addition to tons of tools and experience in the community, there are a variety of mature tools for things like compliance and cost checks. If I use AWS CloudFormation, the same is true. That doesn't mean I wouldn't consider a new tool but it would have to be especially valuable to make up for the cost of losing that baseline.