Scheme is <i>second</i> in jobs on indeed.com, and the author doesn't realize that his search is off?<p>Erlang could become "the next Python"?<p>What a shoddy article.<p>Edit: I realize that Scheme is second only among the nine niche languages. It's still bogus, as a simple search for scheme on indeed.com shows.
Why would I choose any language which runs on the JVM now that Oracle is flexing its muscles? As much as I like Clojure, Scala and Groovy, I'm starting to steer clear of anything related to Oracle's intellectual properties.
Agree with R, but certainly not with Go (not even google is dedicated to make this the next big language, they call it an "experiment") ActionScript is Flash, right?! I would say JavaScript..<p>And Scala and Scheme? Maybe some academics use that, but I don't know a business which relies on it.
This is a really odd way to approach programming languages, I feel. According to the article, none of these are very mainstream languages (although certainly scheme and clojure have their adherents, and LUA is used extensively in the game industry), but they should be watched because of hiring trends?<p>I'd much rather pick up a language because it has some interesting features, or because it solves a problem I have with one of the languages I already know. Seems they're missing the forest for the trees, somehow.