Go to the Nim forums and check out some posts from people who wish Nim was more like Python. In the Nim tutorials, they appear to be closely related, so when new users encounter Nim, a port from Python code to Nim seems reasonable. If you post anything like this on the forums, get ready for some hate.

Nim wants to be its own thing, and posters are quick to point out that Nim isn't Python, never was intended to be, and never will be. That's what the DFL wants, which is fine. But IMO, creating a language that is closely-related to Python, arguably one of the world's most popular languages, and allows / encourages porting large Python codebases, seems like a pretty worth goal. Now that Nim has already made a lot of decisions to make that difficult, it can't pivot to that goal without breaking all the existing Nim code. Too bad: seems like a big opportunity lost to me.