I wouldn't dismiss VM languages outright. I'm also not a fan of the Java VM but the two VMs are very much very different. Also Erlang (and it's VM) were built for telecommunication, and the problems they tried to solve 30 years ago with it are very similar to modern backend engineering problems.
Erlang is in large parts also what allowed WhatsApp to scale to it's userbase with only 30 engineers.
If you find Crystal intriguing I suggest to checkout Elixir. And if static typing is more to your liking, then Gleam.
Both run on the BEAM (Erlang VM) which has a very robust concurrency model and resiliency built into the way you build applications.
I've been using Elixir for years now professionally (fullstack) and I honestly never want to go back.
When I had my vasectomy - still an egg back then - I already thought that I would prefer to have them removed. Less body hair, more head hair, seemed like a good trade. Looking back at that now I can only chuckle at my eggness.
Bevy is such a cool piece of tech. If I ever have the time to get more serious into gamedev it would be my number 1 choice.
Lol, egg me definitely thought along those lines. ๐
I mean eunuchs are a thing and lived long lives. So life without testes should be possible, even without replacement hormones.