[allendoerfer]

All I can see is people wanting to use web-technologies to develop applications. So I would place my bet on the DOM/CSS evolving further and swallowing everything. JavaScript might get some contenders.

[pjmlp]

50 years later the mainframes have won.

Language environments and containers.

[marcosdumay]

They have been "winning" since they started losing. Our PCs are much more similar to 80's mainframes than to 80's PCs.

[foobiekr]

But ... in a lot of ways worse.

[bigato]

Good point. That should probably be the case for the majority of generation who entered the programming world in the last 20 years, which is quite a lot of people. But yet, old farts like me may disagree.