To clarify, I'm not necessarily looking for something "extremely popular". I was using the fact that so many people consider Python to be their favorite languag

To clarify, I'm not necessarily looking for something "extremely popular". I was using the fact that so many people consider Python to be their favorite language as a proxy for the high quality of the language design. Perhaps "popular" was the wrong word? So, thank you for listing some less-popular languages as well. Unfortunately, of all 8 languages listed in your post, is C++ the only one which can produce standalone binaries and thus match the easy deployment of Go?