My YAPC::NA lightning talks.

I'm currently in the speaker's post-conference dinner, having delivered the ppencode talk again (PDF, Flash), as well as 1/5 of the "I think, but I cannot prove" talk, where five amateur futurists get to talk about what's going to happen next. Mine was:

I think, but I cannot prove, that next year JavaScript 2.0 will bootstrap itself, complete self hosting, compile back to JavaScript 1, and replace Ruby as the Next Big Thing on all environments.

I think CPAN and JSAN will merge; JavaScript will become the common backend for all dynamic languages, and so you can write Perl to run in the browser, on the server, and inside databases, all with the same set of development tools.

Because, as we know, "worse is better", so the worst scripting language is doomed to become the best.

Amusingly, Chip subsequently referred to this as the dystopian version of his "ubiquitous embedded Parrot" vision. :-)