If you want a decent and modern language with FP and sane concurrency primitives, the latest #Java language isn't bad (now with union types and pattern matching).
Except that what matters more than the language is the culture of the ecosystem. Doesn't matter how sexy Java, the language, gets, if the status quo is still J2EE, Spring & Hibernate, or if the culture prefers runtime instead of compile-time reflection (unsafe annotations galore), or if it doesn't have standard persistent collections.
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