binarynate

Re: niche languages—Hacker News is written in a dialect of Lisp called Arc:

- https://github.com/wting/hackernews

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)

capableweb
If you do want to get into it, checkout first the arc forums (the UI might be familiar to you: http://arclanguage.org/forum) and then after that check out Anarki which is a community-maintained fork of Arc, seems more up-to-date and has some QoL upgrades, https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki

Coincidentally, seems my post have been the top #1 post on the Arc forums since I first made it, ~17 days ago. That forum could do with a bit more of traffic :)