Just a list of Awesome Alt Langs to check out:
- caramel - a functional language for building type-safe, scalable, and maintainable applications
- Clean - a general purpose, state-of-the-art, pure and lazy functional programming language designed for making real-world applications
- gleam - a fast, friendly, and functional language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
- GOO - type-based prefix syntaxed language that is simple, powerful and extensible
- Janet - a functional and imperative programming language
- koka - A Functional Language with Effect Types and Handlers
- Pharo - a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback
- Shen - a hypermodern functional language that offers many features not currently available under other functional platforms
- crystal - a language for humans and computers.
- grain - a new language that puts academic language features to work.
- idris - A Language for Type-Driven Development.
- inko - Safe and concurrent object-oriented programming, without the headaches.
- io - a programming language focused on expressiveness through simplicity.
- nim - a statically typed compiled systems programming language
- picolisp - a programming language, or really a programming system, including a built-in database engine and a GUI system! It's simple and lightweight and encourages clean, concise code.
- pony - an open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.
- pyret - a programming language designed to serve as an outstanding choice for programming education while exploring the confluence of scripting and functional programming
- v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled. For developing maintainable software.
- wren - a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.
- zig - a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
- zz - zymbolic verifier and tranzpiler to bare metal C