In the days of yore, I might've attempted to shoe-horn Tcl in such a situation. Decent event-loop for distributing tasks and (like Lua, but unlike Python/Ruby)

In the days of yore, I might've attempted to shoe-horn Tcl in such a situation. Decent event-loop for distributing tasks and (like Lua, but unlike Python/Ruby) more eager to escape to C for performance-sensitive tasks.