Agreed on all points. C# does indeed look like it hits the sweet spot, at least in terms of feature set, but I wish it were wholly independent of .NET. Also, certain ugly Windowsisms have snuck into the language, such as CapitalizedMethodNames (but snakeCaseVariableNames, for some reason).<p>A whittled-down, cleaned up Scala without the JVM might also have hit that sweet spot.<p>I&#x27;m hoping Swift will be a contender once it&#x27;s open-sourced and becomes multiplatform.