Also nim came first, also, rust and go aren't even targeting the same use cases. Rust is for performant systems coding or webasm with far fewer footguns than c or c++. Go is for back end software with less cruft or boilerplate or latency than java but about the same throughput as java. It sounds like nim is "i just wan to get this working but I'm worried python wont run fast enough."
Okay, but you're ignoring the thrust of my question, which is "why do I care". Your name is nimmer so it's safe to say we understand why you care, but help me understand why I care about the 3rd-runner:
I'm only comparing it to those languages because of the direct comparisons many others have many in this thread. And popularity != quality, but age is also a very poor measure of success.
Had Nim been developed by or had funding from a large company (Google, Mozilla) I'm sure that chart would be much different. Instead, Nim is built by a group of volunteers contributing to a language they love.
I am not a contributor, but I also quickly fell in love with the language. I felt incredibly productive and being able to build tiny binaries that were cross platform was awesome compared to my old Golang binaries which tend to be heavy (bundling everything into a single binary). Also coming from a web background with little system/application programming knowledge I was able to pick it up really quick. It really is a "better python" in my opinion. The language is incredibly easy to read and write, has really good JSON support (which is a big plus for me) and is incredibly fast. To add more reasons to try, Visual Studio Code has a really good plugin for the language.
Nimmer was the parent. I actually like rust more. Though all three are distant in popularity to java or python, so popularity is probably not going to be the distinguishing characteristic between them. The reason i chimed in is precisely because people keep directly comparing rust and go and they ar all horribly misguided. Sure, you vould write a web backend in rust (or just the slow bits like dropbox did) but you do it because go turned out to be too slow, not because that is a primary use case for rust. And while you could probably write drivers in go, why?
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