GoLang as others suggested is a good pick. If you're in the "I don't like coloured functions" camp it's likely your best bet for web workloads. If you're not a

GoLang as others suggested is a good pick. If you're in the "I don't like coloured functions" camp it's likely your best bet for web workloads. If you're not a fan of GoLang's spartan syntax and are cool with async/await, C#/dotnet core is a great experience on all platforms. IMO it has the best async/await implementation (it originated there) on top of a multi-threaded event loop. ASP.NET is a great web framework and it has great library support for everything else. As someone who avoids "traditional" ORMs (Hybernate, Django) I really like Dapper.