It&#x27;s worth playing with to see if it could fit into your work; for instance, the Haskell ecosystem is <i>very</i> well supported, while Ruby seems to have issues. I am now using it for work on some of my projects. Generally you won&#x27;t have to compile from source; that said I did recompile glibc when that last bug hit. (Security updates for core packages are not a great story now.) It&#x27;s not perfect, but it&#x27;s very hackable.