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neonsunset a day ago

C# and F# will be by far the closest. Other options lack sufficiently good type system or tooling to match either of the two.

Compile to static native binary with 'dotnet publish -p:PublishAot=true' (or add this property to .csproj to not specify on each publish). In the case of F#, you will need to use Console.* methods over 'print*' because print has unbound reflection inside for structural output on "%A" format specifier (it will work most of the time but negatively impacts binary size and causes the compiler to complain).

I can especially recommend F# as "easier more business-focused Rust alternative" because it is expression-oriented, has discriminated unions, full HM type inference and gradual typing is a joy to work with. Data analysis and domain modeling are very pleasant to do in it too.

For systems programming C# is going to be the option to use - it will give you great concurrency primitives, fast (sometimes even zero-cost) native interop, smaller than Go native binaries and a lot of low-level APIs including portable SIMD. Go is often poorly suited for these tasks or can't do them at all (at least without workarounds). There are many new high-performance libraries focused on this domain as .NET gains popularity in non-gaming communities in this area. And of course you benefit from a huge existing ecosystem and won't have to do the all the heavy lifting by yourself unlike in niche languages suggested in sibling comments.