Re: New Development. Where do we go?
It's HTML5. A Chrome Packaged App for the desktop. Cordova (phonegap) on mobile. There are plenty of holes but new APIs every month. You can always spin your own plugins. (Node.js would deserved a mention but it can't compile plugins on windows using the mingw toolchain - which limits it.)
I've transitioned from assembly to C/C++. I think we're transitioning from C/C++ to javascript - it will be the "C" of the web.