The compiler team has never had more than three people at any time, but both the language and its feature set are impressive. I don't know whether they got any sponsorship. Now that the two most prolific developers are primarily working on Nimony, I wonder whether the stable Nim repository will get enough contributions or bug fixes.

The stable compiler repo has a fork https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull/ . It’s unfortunate that developers have different opinions.