[mjhoy]

It's worth playing with to see if it could fit into your work; for instance, the Haskell ecosystem is very well supported, while Ruby seems to have issues. I am now using it for work on some of my projects. Generally you won't have to compile from source; that said I did recompile glibc when that last bug hit. (Security updates for core packages are not a great story now.) It's not perfect, but it's very hackable.