I think things are going to split up even more: - languages for physicists - languages for game developers - languages for business apps - languages for mobile

I think things are going to split up even more: - languages for physicists - languages for game developers - languages for business apps - languages for mobile apps - etc These domains turn out - IMHO - to have vastly different needs and are better served by specialist tools. Some of them textually, some of them visually (game design: Unreal's blueprint).