[rdtsc]

I am not the original poster but I'll respond to this one:

I am familiar with ATS and I don't like that I am only familiar with it from the Language Shootout contest website. I haven't heard of it used in production, no blogs, no news on HN.

It is a bad excuse and rather sad but my main charge against it is that it is not popular enough.

[doublec]

I agree not much is heard about it. I blog about it a fair amount on [1]. There's also /r/ats [2]. I use it in production. The backend of my bitcoin mining pool [3] is written in ATS and has about 1% of the total bitcoin mining capacity and has been operating for a couple of years. The front end of the pool is written in Ur/Web.

[1] http://bluishcoder.co.nz/tags/ats/ [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/ATS/ [3] http://mmpool.bitparking.com