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F#! I’m in love with the language. It is my defacto pick for most things these days. Very expressive AND strongly typed. Being a part of the .Net ecosystem is also a plus.

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I wouldn’t call F# a systems programming language, but it’s definitely on my list of things to properly try out at some point

Can you create desktop GUI apps with it?

Yes!

https://funcui.avaloniaui.net

https://github.com/fabulous-dev/Fabulous

(I'm sure there are more, these two are those which I could recall from the top off my head)

cool, thanks.

I've also gotten it working with FNA. I haven't done anything too elaborate in the game development world, but as far as I can tell there's really no limitations imposed by F# in that front.

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