Random thoughts
i am VERY biased in support of JavaScript. It keeps poking it head into more and more places. plus, there’s a lot of spillover to other popular languages as well.
foe example. you can cut and paste the example AWK user-defined example function on wikipedia, and it run as javascript w/o modification.
PHP is very close as well. the variable syntax is a lot like python’s. the loops are straight outta C.
JSON is being consumed by about every programming and scripting language in use today. Code that was written in early netscape for PCs 12 years ago runs on safari on macs today.
DOMs may change, but javascript stays the same.