Fernando D. Bozzo wrote:
There will be a lot of movement on top languages, depending on the application type and environment, but particulary in web languages. Some big companies are using various of them, because of this movement, and because of the rise of new ones based on old known ones. In example, Java is used a lot and keeps evolving too fast: Java 6 was the kings for various years, then came Java 7, 3 years later Java 8 (2014), this year Java 9 and Java 10 is in development. HTML 5 + Javascript 5 (now 6) + CSS 3 (and 4 any time soon) is a must: They are avolving fast too, and Nodejs is growing at light speed. I think that Nodejs is a very interesting and power language (based on JS), because allows you Javascript on client and server side, it's very scalable and will be fantastic on many environments, including IoT.
All this came with a lot of complexities, because now yo don't have "one" language for programming, testing and debugging, but 2 or more, so development is more tedious, tricky and difficult, and there are many more variables for web development. Rick Strhal surely can talk a lot about it:)
On the desktop side the movement is not that high, may be because almost everybody wants "web" apps, that at this time can interact like desktop apps with the bonus of conectivity and ease of deployment.
I'm missing the VFP calm winds. Too many languages out there and new ones every time make some caos for my taste.
Excellent feedback and observation, Fernando! Thank you very much for your input! As always it is frustrating when trying to determine where to invest your time for learning and gaining expertise.
Mike