You could be right on both counts. Obviously. Still, I do think it's at least plausible that significant changes in environmental context might lead to differe

You could be right on both counts. Obviously. Still, I do think it's at least plausible that significant changes in environmental context might lead to different adoption and uptake patterns. Languages not excepted. Witness the revitalization - relatively speaking - of Erlang as the market fetishized scale-out at the expense of scale up. The specific criticisms, I think we mostly agree on. I might nitpick on the performance question or the idea that C works fine with respect to Go or the outright dismissal of Lisp dialects, but they're arguable at worst. That said, I think the trend, and history, both point to the addition of new languages to the toolkit. These seemed like pretty reasonable guesses based on the current intelligence, but maybe your objections are - as you argue - simply insurmountable. I'll be interested to see what happens next year.