I don't think the platform thing is that big of a deal. Programming languages are pushed and promoted just like everything else in the world. But there are mor

I don't think the platform thing is that big of a deal. Programming languages are pushed and promoted just like everything else in the world. But there are more programmers than ever before, more languages than ever before, more platforms, more everything. And reaching out to most of the programmers becomes much harder and convincing them to use a new shiny language even more so. If anything, we are likely to never see any new language become mainstream again. And likely to see most of the mainstream languages fade away.