Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood
by bjz_ on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:01AM
(#8629122)
At the time when Go and Rust were conceived Nim would have certainly not been on their radar. Both were announced in 2009, at a time when the Nimrod repository had barely even got off the ground[0]. And Nim doesn't really address one of Apple's chief concerns: smoothly transitioning away from Objective-C.
[0]: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors