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You might like Kotlin. It'll also give you access to the entire JVM ecosystem.

I've written a lot of kotlin and it does indeed come very close! Now if only it wasn't bound to java's bytecode under the hood...

Whenever I've had to write kotlin for Android in the past I did quite enjoy it. It seems like the entire ecosystem is very enterprise-y when it comes to web though. Forced adherence to object orientedness and patterns like 100 files, 5 folders deep with 10 lines of code each keep cropping up in most kotlin projects I've seen.

Is that a blessing or a curse?

A blessing. Do you really want to write all the libraries from scratch for a new language? Do you want to come up with portable abstractions that work well on Windows? (and don't think you can skip that, people will ask).

Most people don't. That's not the fun part of language design.

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