Agreed, pretty large omission given that C# was included.

Not such a big fan of Java, but Scala seems to be a strong contender for Java.Next* , and is certainly a viable dynamic-to-static transition language given its terse syntax, deliciously rich collections library, and implicits support (for the MOP fans).

* Twitter being able to withstand spikes of 140K+ tweets per second without lagtime is impressive to say the least.