The HN community is particularly receptive to functional programing. HN itself is written in Arc which is a language implemented in Racket. There's still activ

The HN community is particularly receptive to functional programing. HN itself is written in Arc which is a language implemented in Racket. There's still active research in Fortran i.e. for super computers etc., check out the SIGPLAN Fortran Forum [1]. OOPSLA/SPLASH has lots of non-functional language research [2]. Also check out PLDI, arguably one of the most prestigious PL conferences. Scala, Dart, and LLVM feature in their tutorials section [3]. [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J286 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J286 [2] http://splashcon.org/2012/program/oopsla-research-papers http://splashcon.org/2012/program/oopsla-research-papers [3] http://pldi2013.ucombinator.org/tutorials.html http://pldi2013.ucombinator.org/tutorials.html