I love Crystal, but the lack of a proper LSP and tooling makes it hard to just jump in and adopt for bigger projects.

Unfortunately, Nim's BDFL is... not known for playing well with others. Perhaps the Nimskull fork will grow into something widely useful?

https://github.com/nim-works/nimskull

That's total BS btw, I've been part of the Nim community for over 7 years now and never had an bad interactions with the project's lead. But I did witness behavior from certain individuals that was out of line. Some of them went on to blame Araq in other places, I have read their criticism, which I found very hypocritical. You should take their views less seriously.