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C# has had excellent concurrency support for quite some time, and is most definitely a utilitarian language.

Of course, the elephant in the room is needing a windows-based infrastructure ... but if that's not a huge barrier, it's not an unreasonable choice.

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I keep forgetting about C# and F#, but with Microsoft embracing open source they may become actually interesting for people outside the windows world.

It might not be common knowledge yet, but C#, F#, and .NET are fully open source and cross-platform. Development is done in public on GitHub (https://github.com/dotnet), and pull requests are accepted from the community. You can even get a support contract from Microsoft and call them up to troubleshoot your .NET project on Linux. No Windows required.

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