There seems to be a lot of talk about who's next... I'm not sure "next" is the right word. C and C++ have not gone anywhere and with the penetration of Java so far, I'm not sure it will really take a fall either.
I do think we are already seeing a trend in the programming community "back" to scripting or dynamic languages as a whole (JVM or not) which I agree with. That being said, getting the JVM to better support the building of these dynamic languages, solve the "jvm slow startup" issues and contributing to any dynlang on the JVM are all a good direction toward the "next" language.
There seems to be a lot of talk about who's next... I'm not sure "next" is the right word. C and C++ have not gone anywhere and with the penetration of Java so far, I'm not sure it will really take a fall either.
I do think we are already seeing a trend in the programming community "back" to scripting or dynamic languages as a whole (JVM or not) which I agree with. That being said, getting the JVM to better support the building of these dynamic languages, solve the "jvm slow startup" issues and contributing to any dynlang on the JVM are all a good direction toward the "next" language.