| These are just my opinions. I tend to state them forcefully, but they're not really anything but my idea. I don't like Ruby because it hits a sour spot for me. It used to be very cutting edge, but then stagnated. It has all the problems of a dynamic language, but nothing to really offset it. Its tooling is fairly good for assembling new projects, but not maintaining them. I think if I went somewhere today, on the spot. 1. FSharp & C#. The .NET Core stuff is exciting. I view, "enterprisey" is just, "I have libraries for lots of things I don't want to solve like calendaring." So long as I can quickly develop and deploy code, those kind of social things are immaterial. People worry about .NET core performance even as they ship Node code, so I find that concern somewhat manufactured. 2. OCaml, in the same vein as F#, but I think this lacks a lot of ecosystem stuff so I suspect it will always be secondary. 3. Go or Rust. I could just bite the bullet and do it. It's doable, it just requires a lot of thought. |
2/3) I think the communities are way too small.
So if you are in the Linux world and want to work on Back end . Then Java is your only options. You can mix in groovy/kotlin/scala to make dev less painful .Look at dropwizard and play framework the are an improvement on JSF/JSP/Spring mess.