Finance and esoteric languages
- Jane Street famously uses OCaml, an otherwise-obscure functional programming language.
- Morgan Stanley in the 1970s used APL. (A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber, ch. 3)
- Goldman uses a homegrown language called Slang. (HN thread with discussion)
- Other big investment banks use "Bank Python", their own homegrown forks of the Python ecosystem.
Anyone know of any other examples?
Outside of finance
- WhatsApp is built on Erlang. (src)