+1 for Rust.<p>I think there&#x27;s two main areas I&#x27;d be interested in, at least from my own perspective:<p><pre><code>  1) Rust and&#x2F;or C++. Performance. Systems programming. Industrial 
     strength apps. Libraries such as CUDA.

  2) Javascript and WebGL. Chrome(OS). Dart. 
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I&#x27;ve skipped over Agile process and C#, which is probably where the bulk of the career programmers are. If you avoid this, then I suspect you are guaranteed a more interesting life.<p>Both 1) and 2) above are where I&#x27;d suspect the bulk of the intellectual firepower is deployed. Think D3.js, three.js, Rust, boost, CUDA, OpenCL, WebGL.