There is no one language to rule them all, and there never will be. Compared to when I started in the early 80's there are enormous choices to pick from today.

There is no one language to rule them all, and there never will be. Compared to when I started in the early 80's there are enormous choices to pick from today. When I started I was allowed to pick any language I wanted as long as it was Fortran. So having new language choices today is a good thing, but it makes it very hard to pick. As an iOS programmer today I am glad to use a nice modern Swift. If I did Android I would likely chose Kotlin. If I did server side I would likely pick Rust or Go or Clojure or Javascript or Erlang or ... too many choices. Its not about the "next generation" its about picking something that works for you and your team/project and hope its not abandoned. No one language is going to be the Next Single Big Thing.