I actually found most of them to be pretty reasonable. > It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is out. Personally, this probably wou

I actually found most of them to be pretty reasonable. > It has to run on most systems, anything with a C compiler, so D is out. Personally, this probably wouldn't be such a huge factor for me. I actually think that something like Go would also be suitable for most of those other rules. That said, the question eventually becomes about how often those actually are factors that might influence one's choice. For example, in many cases the startup times won't be such a big deal (e.g. webapps with multiple instances), nor will runtime performance (e.g. Python scripts for shuffling some data around).