[gregoryc_]

People can be very rust-centric, but compilation of Rust (or Crystal) can take forever. The fast compilation of this "language" makes running scripts be like a scripting language, like Perl.

Will it be hard for me to find people who want to go in this direction?

I hope not.

This could handle all of your problems, and if you change your mindset a little bit to be willing to use this and to contribute to this project, all of your major programming difficulties might be solved. (And lets be honest, performance ALWAYS matters. Running a script in 5 hours vs 15 hours DOES matter, maybe not to your employer, but to you, it should.)

Thank you.