[berkes]

I think it'll be more fragmented. For one, because major language gain more features and such start overlapping more. Making them easier to move between.

And secondly because we're now at that pendulum swing, where people realize that "write once run everywhere" has severe downsides, easily overcome by writing software in a language or framework that fits the usecases best.

The latter is easily seen in the common practice of splitting out the UI in webdev. And in using microservices. Rails stubbornly goes against this common practice (which isn't a value call, just an observation) and as such, places itself outside of what we commonly are used to .

The former is seen in e.g. typing or type hints being added everywhere, languages getting support for functional programming, generics, interfaces, class inheritance etc.