Personally, I am looking to Rust or Pony, but both are too young, and the tooling is quite there, not to mention recruitment potential. Erlang/LFE/Elixir are gr

Personally, I am looking to Rust or Pony, but both are too young, and the tooling is quite there, not to mention recruitment potential. Erlang/LFE/Elixir are great for certain distributed HFT tasks, but not the core for speed and latency. The JVM is in HFT in because of sheer inertia; it has been worked on for so many years to shoehorn it in, and some smart people have made it work. The tooling is mature, and there are alternative syntaxes close to it like Kotlin that remove a lot of the noise for code review and maintenance. The JVM is the reason I stayed away from Clojure, even though I like Lisp/Scheme syntax and the semantics. Where is Clojure-clr nowadays?