Four Fascinating Programming Languages You've Probably Never Heard Of (bobkonf2026)

There’s a world outside of Java and C#. Well, you know there is, because you know there are JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Kotlin, Scala and Swift. But let’s look at bit further. If you're interested in programming languages, you probably heard about Haskell with its pure functions and lazy evaluation. And about Rust, with it's ownership and borrowing based memory management. Let's skip even those and go just a tiny bit less mainstream, so you have something to think about. I'll show you four innovative programming languages and briefly introduce their concepts. And not silly ones like Whitespace or Brainf**k. Serious ones, pushing the boundaries, truly innovating. I won't name them now, to not spoil the surprise. I can't guarantee it, but I think there’s a very good chance that there's going to be at least one you've never heard of, but that will capture your interest. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de about this event: https://bobkonf.de/2026/huehnken.html