Often when a community gets bigger, the cool "garage band" type of things still happen. Its just that they are drowned by the pop culture in the media. You need

Often when a community gets bigger, the cool "garage band" type of things still happen. Its just that they are drowned by the pop culture in the media. You need to look in specific corners. For programming languages I know the google term "conlangs" and I know that there is a scientific lang development place called "lambda the ultimate". If you want to see and use the cool stuff, look for that.