Either “one true language,” or just as possibly, humans tend to wander from one local optimum to another. At the moment, most mainstream languages are orbiting

Either “one true language,” or just as possibly, humans tend to wander from one local optimum to another. At the moment, most mainstream languages are orbiting a certain obvious local maximum with lots of “functions as first-class objects living alongside objects and classes” semantics. But it was a different local maximum a decade ago, when every language and its dog became OO. And perhaps a decade from now, it will be another.