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I never understood HNs fascination with BEAM family. I feel like very few people people here actively use it for anything even remotely intensive - it simply has too much of a runtime bloat, as slow as Ruby in low concurrency tasks, and Erlang is often too unwieldy.

Go aside, it's as if everyone hates getting things done in a delightful way, which is why I find this top 5 leaning a bit too much towards the quadrant of PL elitism and historical status quo adherence at the same time. Not to mention the drawbacks of JVM, which is by all means a stagnating ecosystem, despite the work to catch up with the rest, it might be a little too late.