"you aren't going to write a key-value database, web server, or the next docker..." I don't consider any of those things to be "systems programming". Any lang

"you aren't going to write a key-value database, web server, or the next docker..." I don't consider any of those things to be "systems programming". Any language with a GC is utterly unsuitable for systems programming. If what you're actually looking for is somewhat performant application programming, then languages like Swift and Go become an option again.