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Syntactically speaking, Gleam fits the bill. It's very new/immature though and isn't in the same performance bracket since it runs on the BEAM.

how is its startup time? ive wanted to learn it or ocaml for a while and might take the plunge

I only wrote some toy programs in it, and it didn't jump out to me as an issue. I don't have any real data for you though, sorry!