That's the one. Experience is that it's very good at what it does: multithreaded/distributed programs. Good C interop. It forces you into it's paradigm, but i

That's the one. Experience is that it's very good at what it does: multithreaded/distributed programs. Good C interop. It forces you into it's paradigm, but it's a good one for creating performant code across cores. Tooling isn't great, it's missing things like a language server (compiler gives good error messages at least), but it's also quite simple (whole syntax fits into a smallish page) and the documentation is decent. Playing around with it for doing economic simulations. Actors + good multithreaded performance = pretty much perfect for the domain. Makes sense too, the creator and half the core members came from the financial field. Ruby is my go-to for scripting, one off programs, and anything web-related (blog, putting together a small crud site). For things where I want performance, I just use a compiled/static language.