Thanks, that's just the kind of comparison I was looking for. If anyone has an idea about the (A) relative stability of the languages, and (B) the number of li

Thanks, that's just the kind of comparison I was looking for. If anyone has an idea about the (A) relative stability of the languages, and (B) the number of libraries/packages for things you don't want to write yourself, that'd be great. Note: > has in the past used garbage collection but a new reference counting mechanism has been introduced lately. Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection. It's often faster than the "hello world" of gc, namely mark and sweep, but it has its own challenges.