It's exactly these, with the emphasis on easy, that pushed me towards Elixir three years ago. The dev ergonomics are nearly as nice as Ruby's, it's got a great

It's exactly these, with the emphasis on easy, that pushed me towards Elixir three years ago. The dev ergonomics are nearly as nice as Ruby's, it's got a great MVC framework and you also get points 1 and 2. That said, I'm also seeing Rust really start to boom and it trades managed memory for very powerful tools for managing it manually.