The core engine will most certainly be written in C/C++ for the next 10 years. A ton of gameplay gets pushed out to Lua and a lot of the UI gets pushed out to

The core engine will most certainly be written in C/C++ for the next 10 years. A ton of gameplay gets pushed out to Lua and a lot of the UI gets pushed out to ActionScript. Tools are mostly written in C#. But really, all game programmers need a fundamental understanding how the platform and architecture works all the way down to the nuts and bolts.