You might like Perl too.
Edit: haha I love how people downvote this like i'm being sarcastic. Down with Perl, that horrible language with a community and modules 100x larger than Node!
Edit: haha I love how people downvote this like i'm being sarcastic. Down with Perl, that horrible language with a community and modules 100x larger than Node!
So you want an environment that is easy to program in a functional style with closures and first class functions. Has a large ecosystem, including hundreds (thousands?) of packages to do asynchronous IO. Is easily extensible and can fall back on code written in C. Finally, has a large and active community ( Madison NAPC is sold out )?
And Perl isn't even on your radar?
https://github.com/semmypurewal/node-talk-examples/
and translated them to Perl.
https://github.com/sciurus/anyevent-plack-examples
If you're interested in functional programming, I've learned a lot from the parts I've read of Higher-Order Perl.
I'm a fan of C and Python myself, but I always chuckle at all the Perl hate.