I'm neither OP nor an expert, but I highly recommend rust. It's got a few great features that put it higher on my list than go 1. Zero cost abstractions, namel

I'm neither OP nor an expert, but I highly recommend rust. It's got a few great features that put it higher on my list than go 1. Zero cost abstractions, namely the ownership system - No GC by default, provides memory safety without the overhead but at the cost of a higher learning curve. 2. Higher-level language features like FP, inheritance, and generics that optimize away to machine code that's equal to or faster than the equivalent C version. 3. Cargo / crates package management. You just include any external library you need in your Config.toml file and cargo takes care of the rest. 4. Best of both worlds type system - about as strongly typed as Haskell but type inference takes care of the tedium of having to annotate the type of every variable like C / java style giving the killer feature of "if it compiles it's basically bug free".