[daemin]

How about we just end this speculation over what is the next big language, and just check back in 5 or 10 years and see what is actually popular and useful.

There's so much that can change in one year let alone five or ten, therefore it isn't easy to make predictions that far out.

For the record I use C++ in a day job, and there's an awful lot of code written in it, so it will exist in some form or other for a very long time to come. Need I mention COBOL? There's also enough stuff written in Java, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Ruby, and Python for them to easily last into the next decade.