The Language of 2016?

It's been estimated by a few people that popular industry languages have a lifetime of about 10 years.

It's been cited that in the 70's FORTRAN was what you needed, in the 80's C++, in the 90's Java, and that right now we're on the precipice of a new language taking over the "Enterprise" or whatever the hell you want to call it.

To be honest? I don't care about that. I feel like I'm on a course to knowing the sorts of things that are going to be necessary to be a succesful programmer in the next 10 years. By no means am I there yet, but I feel comfortable with where I'm headed right now.

What I want to start getting answers to is where I and everyone else will be going in a decade, give or take.

This entry is inspired by the "World's Most Maintainable Programming Language" article series written by chromatic.

Because of its Length, I'm breaking this down into a number of entries for easy consumption:

Part 1: Simple Semantics
Part 2: Common Datastructures and Manipulations Thereon
Incomplete Entries:
Part 3: Trivializing Common Tasks
Part 4: Distributed Computational Models
Part 5: Optimization Over Usage
Part 6: Declarational Co-Language
Part 7: Community