It depends - What do you mean by "kickass" ???? A very incomplete list ... Utmost speed, very close to the metal: C, C++, Assembler Easiest to learn and wri

It depends - What do you mean by "kickass" ???? A very incomplete list ... Utmost speed, very close to the metal: C, C++, Assembler Easiest to learn and write, quickly: Python, Ruby Will get you a job in most large corporates: Java, C#, COBOL Will run on all browsers and many servers: ECMAScript, aka JavaScript (TM Oracle Corp) Might impress the technorati: Haskell, Scala, Erlang, Common Lisp, ML, F#, Scheme Totally utterly useless and do your brain in: BrainFuck