I work with C# & TypeScript, which frankly I don't find too bad
I love to work with Scala though, I find there's a really nice way to do almost everything, and C is nice because it allows so much control over what your program is actually doing - same with OCaml really, however the ability to use Java libraries in Scala makes it that bit better
I'd quite like to try Spatial for hardware in the future
In theory and in a study where people are actually paying attention to the changes sure, but I think in actual fact people are going to inherently distrust things they dislike and want to trust things they like so for all intents and purposes they'd be identical