[rubber_duck]

And F#/other .NET languages.

As for displacing Java - this is never going to happen - I prefer .NET but soo many companies have invested man-milenias probably in to Java deveopment - it might losr popularity, especially with Oracle at the helm.

[matt_m]

Sure, I agree Java isn't going anywhere, I just meant it might grow some at Java's expense since it has some of the same strengths (and while the ecosystem might not be up there with Java it's surely competitive with some of the other languages used for backend development).