Yeah, that is exactly what I want for when I build web applications. Something with an ecosystem like Rust's, with more advanced type system than go but which sacrifices some performance for ease of development.
I feel like Crystal is close, they just need more community to build out their ecosystem. Otherwise it seems like a perfect language (fun, simple to understand, compiled + fast, has types)
Already played with it, what has killed me are the outragously long compile times for nontrivial code and no "easy" way to crosscompile binaries, besides from some docker hack. Also its like a modern Ruby, which is great in general, but I really want ML-like functional style programming instead of OOP
