JS could fill the role but both the runtime and language are unideal, we end up dealing with a lot of browser baggage. JS is still my tool of choice for buildi

JS could fill the role but both the runtime and language are unideal, we end up dealing with a lot of browser baggage. JS is still my tool of choice for building web apps. Just as for long running services, Clojure is a no brainer for me. I am pretty open to ML or LISP based syntaxes, not necessarily looking for something Clojure-like.