Thank you, but ... First, I'm not looking for a language. Programming languages are part of my field. I was making an observation rather than expressing a need

Thank you, but ... First, I'm not looking for a language. Programming languages are part of my field. I was making an observation rather than expressing a need. If there's a language that's not totally obscure or esoteric, I've probably written some serious code in it at some time. Second, I know and use Scala (among other languages) and have done so since the 1.x versions, but the JVM dependency is too often a problem (and Scala Native is not yet mature).