Acton is a advanced general purpose programming language offering functional and object-oriented style of programming based on the actor-model and async I/O. Type safe and with capabilities based security, Acton is statically compiled for high performance and portability. In other words, pretty much perfect ;) We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. It's readily available to build anything from advanced "shell scripts" to low level databases.
Unique among programming languages, Acton offers orthogonal persistence, which means you don't have to think about how to persist data, or rather the state of your program, for durability. Acton will do it for you, using its fault-tolerant distribute database. Pretty damn cool!