Thanks, that's just the kind of comparison I was looking for.

If anyone has an idea about the (A) relative stability of the languages, and (B) the number of libraries/packages for things you don't want to write yourself, that'd be great.

Note:

> has in the past used garbage collection but a new reference counting mechanism has been introduced lately.

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection. It's often faster than the "hello world" of gc, namely mark and sweep, but it has its own challenges.