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I don't know much about Scala but Erlang/Elixir fits quite good to the description as well:

> Scala is the programming language I use for tasks like writing web servers or IRC clients.

Scala has a very well-regarded implementation of Erlang's actor system. I have personally seen it handle hundreds of thousands of requests spun off as lightweight threads.

I still don't quite understand the point of actor-model concurrency systems running on runtimes that can't perform pre-emptive scheduling, but I guess 80% of a solution is better than none at all.

The JVM (well, Java really) has been supporting orders of magnitude of that for many years.

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