RE Java/JVM just try Clojure for a bit... it's really rather good. Otherwise, do Go. Really useful for high performance. Channels are easy as pie for concurren

RE Java/JVM just try Clojure for a bit... it's really rather good. Otherwise, do Go. Really useful for high performance. Channels are easy as pie for concurrency. Web services, command line tools, etc; lovely. Downside is that it's verbose and if you hate loops then there's no salvation for you.