Wanted: a language that is similarly easy to work with as JS, has automatic memory management, has similar (or better) performance, and whose code can be embedded in codebases in arbitrary other languages (including C/C++) with minimal integration overhead. 
(Note: *all* of the properties must be satisfied. "Most" properties isn't useful here!)
@joepie91 swift, maybe? The Linux/windows story isn’t great but aiui it does exist, and I think there’s good tooling for generating C bindings
@Gaelan Yeah, this is kind of the issue I ran into - I looked into it and everything I found was "now start by downloading Xcode, and..."
It seemed interesting in some ways, but I don't know, it doesn't give me much confidence that it'll be a reliable long-term option when you don't want to play in Apple's walled garden.
