I have never really been exposed to the likes of Scheme, Lisp, Smalltalk etc. and I'm curious if anyone without an academic background actually got in to any of that by themselves.
Generally, it's just a bunch of JS, C#, Java, Python, and some Scala that runs everywhere I look, which often also has a large "I came across it and I got to work" type of developer or engineer using it. Maybe it's just the type of ecosystem I keep hopping around it but it seems that it's much less prominent than you'd expect.
There are always novel compilers, transpilers and showcases, but the amount of widespread use eludes me. (Only ErLang comes to mind with RabbitMQ, and maybe OCaml with Xen)
Generally, it's just a bunch of JS, C#, Java, Python, and some Scala that runs everywhere I look, which often also has a large "I came across it and I got to work" type of developer or engineer using it. Maybe it's just the type of ecosystem I keep hopping around it but it seems that it's much less prominent than you'd expect.
There are always novel compilers, transpilers and showcases, but the amount of widespread use eludes me. (Only ErLang comes to mind with RabbitMQ, and maybe OCaml with Xen)