What with all of the FUD and uncertainty around Oracle’s ongoing transformation of Java into it’s own version of .Net, and what with the, xmas book season creeping up on us, the jobbing programmer thoughts turn to what new programming book to order next for your Kindle/iPad/whatever ebook reader/dead tree edition.

Helpfully DZone has come up with a list of “up and coming” programming lanuages for 2011

9 Programming Languages to watch

* Go figures (go figure?) fairly prominently
* Inexplicably Lua (which has been knocking around for ages, there’s even a Psion version) seems to be quite popular, though I suspect a lot, of this might be because it’s the scripting for World of Warcraft

* Scala seems to be winning the battle of the JVM languages, over Clojure and Groovy
* Erlang gets mentioned, but not Haskell

Of course, for the bleeding edge of you there’s always…

* Rust from Mozilla – which is so bleeding edge it’s still in alpha
* Fantom – for meta JVM and CLR portability
* Mirah – seems like a way of writing Java bytecode using Ruby, from the chap who brought you JRuby.