I think there are lots of interesting new things happening in the world of programming languages, and its not all related to the web platform by a long shot. The thing that I find most encouraging is that LLVM and things like pypy make it much easier to create a language that stands a chance of performing half decently even without years of writing your own optimization code. I actually think the world of programming languages is currently more diverse than it was 10 years ago, although perhaps less diverse than 20 years ago.
I think there are lots of interesting new things happening in the world of programming languages, and its not all related to the web platform by a long shot. The thing that I find most encouraging is that LLVM and things like pypy make it much easier to create a language that stands a chance of performing half decently even without years of writing your own optimization code. I actually think the world of programming languages is currently more diverse than it was 10 years ago, although perhaps less diverse than 20 years ago.