This together with misunderstanding Donald Knuth's quote (it was talking about not hand-writing ASM rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater) is why we don't have nice things in places we are ought to.

You have a set of tools with comparable degrees of features and productivity*, but one of them comes at a steep performance cost, perhaps you might want to pick the one that is snappier and easier to use?

* Though one could argue F# offers more in regular niceties at the cost of not having distributed framework built-in, requiring you to reach for Akka. I certainly find F# significantly easier to read and write than Erlang.