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I'd consider it more seriously now it's 1.0. You've basically got an ecosystem of Ruby-likes:

- Ruby itself

- Crystal

- Elixir

I'm massively keen on Zig, too, but it still feels like early days for the language itself. The C-interop is utterly astounding but I don't want to write Zig as syntax-sugar around C libraries.

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And Julia as well.

Julia if anything is unlike Ruby. The very first Ruby example on the official site showcases its object-oriented nature. Julia instead of objects has multiple dispatch.

On one hand you're absolutely correct in that Julia is dispatch-oriented, and doesn't have ton in common with what is commonly considered OOP today.

However, as far as I understand it there is also an argument to be made that multiple dispatch is at least as close to Alan Kay’s original intent for OO (e.g. [1]) than is the currently-ubiquitous class-based version of OO that leads to things like `RequestProcessorFactoryFactory` s with `RequestProcessorFactoryFactory.getRequestProcessorFactory(Class)` methods.

[1] https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-forgotten-history-of...

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