> I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ node-webkit runs on Linux, that's a pretty reasonable choice for

> I would love to do desktop apps on Linux but it seems that my only real choice there is C++ node-webkit runs on Linux, that's a pretty reasonable choice for cross-platform development these days. Used by https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable and https://github.com/slate/slate https://github.com/slate/slate, for example. I agree with the suggestion to move to a functional language -- Ruby and Python wouldn't teach you much on top of Node and Go. Doesn't really matter which one -- Scheme, Haskell, Clojure, whichever.