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This is the silliest thing I have read in a long while (albeit partly because I don't read Paul Graham anymore).

In 20 years no one will even recognize Kotlin's name.

But C++ will be going stronger than ever. Why? It is absolutely exploding right now, even though it is 40 years old. Attendance at conferences for C++ (until lockdown, of course) was through the roof, with C++ conferences multiplying to try to absorb the overflow. Attendance at each of the ISO Standard C++ conferences in the last four years has exceeded that at all previous meetings.

Essentially all of the highest-paid development in Fintech, CAE, telecom, aerospace, semiconductor simulation, HPC, and neural AI is done exclusively in C++, for reasons.

Java will still be trundling right along, not for any good reason, but just because it is a steady job with light demands.