It is a hard job to predict the world's most popular programming languages over the next few years. Bold assumptions about the supremacy of a language will always not work out; then you have the languages that seem to come from nowhere to grab a larg...
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Great article, thanks.
I would personally add two more: Swift and Dart.
Swift is well established for iOS / Mac ecosystem and is not going anywhere any soon.
Dart is getting much love from Flutter community and I personally think it can even be the main language for Android apps in the future (Google is investing a lot in that).
This is a very holistic write-up. But as Nassim Taleb who is a financial thinker says "if somethings has survived X years it is more likely to stay next X years". That's why Javascript Python and Java are here to stay longer. And C++ will stay in the future as well. Things that change faster have a low survival rate.
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I actually predicted the first three languages, especially Go which is gaining enough traction now, python would forever remain relevant for so many reasons.