I’ve started experimenting with the Crystal Programming Language. It’s a nice and clean language with syntax similar to Ruby, but compiled to fast native code, and a lot of clever ideas, like union types and seamless C integration The project is still in early stages, but it’s promising.
Just to see how easy, I ported a small python library to Crystal, you can find it on https://github.com/ilmanzo/spark. I hope to find the time to improve on it!