Aside from programming paradigms, my frankensteinian view of the future is as follow: Javascript VMs become so good, other languages start being built on top of

Aside from programming paradigms, my frankensteinian view of the future is as follow: Javascript VMs become so good, other languages start being built on top of it. The future V8/Rhino... instead of JVM for new languages. I can certainly see Clojure in JS pretty soon. This might be wishful thinking on my part (see bellow for why). "Will game development ever diversify or will it go from C++ to C# to ..." Yes, WebGL is in my view a game changer (pun intended). I'm pretty bias considering I use it currently a lot. But I'm replacing scientific application in C++ with WebGL version online. Finally, I don't see a slow down in new languages popping up any time soon. I think it's important that they can run on some generic VMs to allow for multi language apps to be possible.