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There's a few on my radar (from most underestimated to popular):

  - Pony (seems like the best of Rust and Go), need to build up adoption, libraries
  - F#, what I wish my foray into Scala was like
  - Elixir, possibly with Phoenix grow to be the next Ruby/Rails
  - Julia, the only other data == code language (now has axes for 0-based indexing)
  - Clojure, a batteries-included lisp

The biggest problem with F# for me originally was being tied to the Windows .Net platform. Now as mentioned it's from being in the shadow of C# which is incrementally getting features from F# in poorer form. It works fine on Mac and Linux but is still not easy to set up and get started.

I've recently seen Julia and Elixir mentioned in language discussions about homoiconicity. They're technically not--in the same sense as much as Lisp's s-expressions, but are convenient to do run-time code inspection and generation without much fuss which is the pragmatic side of it.

While normal Julia syntax is indeed arguably not quite homoiconic in the same way that Lisp s-expressions are (a good discussion of the issue by Stefan Karpinski here: [1]), it turns out there is a little-known built-in s-expression syntax for Julia (which can be more-or-less enabled as a REPL mode in only a handful of lines [2]).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31733766/in-what-sense-a...

[2] https://gist.github.com/brenhinkeller/44051118c2f9d18b26dc76...

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