These days I care less about how the language looks and more about the development/deployment experience, and how much memory it’s going to take on a VPS, since

These days I care less about how the language looks and more about the development/deployment experience, and how much memory it’s going to take on a VPS, since that’s the primary thing driving VPS costs. Ruby (and rails) for web applications is very hard to beat ergonomically. Go also feels this way to me, the development experience is very simple, deployment is even easier than ruby/rack (assuming no docker), and you get the added bonus of using a lot less memory on the server.