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Have you looked at Lua+C and LuaJIT+nginx (CloudFlare, OpenResty)? Work is underway to compile a subset of Perl6 to LuaJIT+nginx.

I can't get over the 1 based indexes in Lua, unless that has changed in recent years.

Still there :) The trade-off is rapid development (interpreted, GC), fast execution (JIT faster than Javascript) and easy interfacing to C libraries.

I shall have a try next week and see if I can cope with it :)