I am assuming your requirements are statically typed with GC, no separate VM, and lightweight runtime. One language I have been watching with a keen eye lately

I am assuming your requirements are statically typed with GC, no separate VM, and lightweight runtime. One language I have been watching with a keen eye lately is Pony[1] though the docs are not quite complete. 1 - http://ponylang.org/ http://ponylang.org/