Lua is the most surprising to me; it seemed to languish for years, and all of a sudden explode. Because of the Roblox factor, there's going to be a huge number

Lua is the most surprising to me; it seemed to languish for years, and all of a sudden explode. Because of the Roblox factor, there's going to be a huge number of Lua-proficient programmers entering the workforce over the next several years. I think it's usage will climb, edging out Python in places where you really want a simple and easy scripting language.