[jrockway]

It is very fast without sacrificing abstraction.

This is what I use it for. My program ends up being as long as Perl, but as fast as C. For me, that's the best of both worlds.

For gluing libraries together, it's not the best, but in the last few months it's gotten quite good. There is hardly anything I want to do that would involve reinventing any wheels that I already have in $other_language.