It really seems we are in a world of infinite new programming languages. Typically in my career there was always a "common" language and the Next Best Thing. In

It really seems we are in a world of infinite new programming languages. Typically in my career there was always a "common" language and the Next Best Thing. In the 1980s Pascal was common but C was touted as better, then in the 1990s, C++ replacing C, then in the early 2000s C++ was common and Java was the next best thing. But now with Rust, Haskell, Clojure, Swift, Go, etc. etc., it really isn't clear what the Next Best Thing is.