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by open-source-ux 2302 days ago
Crystal, Nim and Julia are modern languages and reasonably easy to start learning. Crystal is very close to Ruby in syntax (but not identical). It is not cross-platform yet, but developers are working on a Windows port. It is not yet at version 1.0 (Nim and Julia are).

All are general purpose languages but each language has attracted developers concentrating on different fields. Julia is designed for high-performance scientific computing. Nim has generated interest from game and graphics developers. And Crystal has become popular for server-side Web development. But you'll find developers using these languages for a wide variety of tasks.

Crystal: https://crystal-lang.org/

Julia: https://julialang.org/

Nim: https://nim-lang.org/

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Nim is very close to a statically typed Python.