There is a substantial… feel… difference in using a well gced language that isn’t tied to a monolithic runtime. A big part of that is having zero perceptible st

There is a substantial… feel… difference in using a well gced language that isn’t tied to a monolithic runtime. A big part of that is having zero perceptible startup overhead, since it isn’t parsing a class path or trying to load a bunch of dlls or anything beyond what your code explicitly doe + a much more minimalistic than you might expect GC runtime. Often only 20-30kb of machine code. While it hasn’t really taken off yet, I’ll point to nim, specifically with its very recently stable arc GC, as a very compelling local (at least) maximum in this space.