The Future

Do you think:

Rust will be the new C?

Clojure will be the new Java?

Go will be the new C++?

Perl6 will be the best thing about Perl?

Ruby and FIOC continue their legacy for a few more decades?

Haskell will use superior_snake_case instead?

ARM will overtake x86?

>>1
Rust, Go, Clojure over C, C++ and Java?
D and Scala are much closer (so less adoption effort) and you didn't cite them.

>>8,13
RISC taking over CISC
Beware of your wishes. http://streamcomputing.eu/blog/2012-08-27/processors-that-can-do-20-gflops-watt/

>>17
abstractions forbid lower-level optimization
leaky abstractions forbid lower-level optimization. C is not sweet at all, you ought to take care of your structs and loops. For brute performance, Fortran is better than C.