It’s not enough to have good “theoretical” performance when other languages already have measurably good performance today. I’m not trying to say that Nim is bad or slow, but when there are a dozen similar static, compiled languages to choose from, it’s easy to dismiss one based purely on the benchmarks alone. I understand that it’s sort of an optimization game with these benchmarks, but it’s at least a form of marketing, which is something that Nim can benefit from.