If you don't need the low-level control of Rust then I think Scala would check all of your boxes (aside from distributing dependencies as code instead of binari

If you don't need the low-level control of Rust then I think Scala would check all of your boxes (aside from distributing dependencies as code instead of binaries). Specifically, an effect library like ZIO looks a lot like Rust without the complexity of managing lifetimes (because you have a GC).