Also, balanced software architectures designed by balanced people will continue to "alternate hard and soft layers", as the traditional precept says, in the for

Also, balanced software architectures designed by balanced people will continue to "alternate hard and soft layers", as the traditional precept says, in the form of convenient and easy to learn DSLs and dynamic language scripting layered above a dependable and unchanging (and therefore usually compiled and high performance) application core. In related news, people will continue to choose the right tools for the job, for example by preferring functional languages only when managing I/O and state is trivial enough.