Completely agreed. I'm mostly getting hung up on the ecosystem issues the previous person alluded to -- I gave up at some point this weekend after fighting with getting the GMP bindings working properly on my mac with libraries installed in /opt/local instead of /usr/lib, for example. (The previous "ugh" was with the built-in bigint package). That's not about the core language, per se, just about the library and tooling maturity. As I said - once I have a bit more time to throw at it, I'll give it a real shot.