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I'll speculate that he will design a new cloud-first programming language. Almost all letters in GAFAME has their own programming languages:

  Google has Go (and Dart)
  Apple has Swift (and ObjC)
  Facebook - Hack and ReasonML
  AWS - ?
  Microsoft has DotNet-based PLs, Typescript
  Ethereum - Solidity, Serpent, Viper, etc.

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Including Ethereum in this group is laughable. Apples (literally) and Oranges

> Facebook - ?

Facebook created Hack[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)

also ReasonML

Google also has/had Borgmon, Sawzall, GCL and a few Python derivatives.

Why is Ethereum included in this group?

I extended GAFAM to GAFAME, but that's not a good thing for Ethereum:

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/860970968143060992

I don't think Ethereum belongs on the list, considering that almost noone has heard of it.

As much as I disagree with Ethereum's design choices and all the speculation on it's ERC20 tokens, I still decided to list it as a 6th major tech platform TODAY - I hope that in the future we'll have something much much better.

Go to any blockchain or fintech hackathon and you'll see that Ethereum is a number one choice for devs (hobbyists, startups and even financial institutions and F500 companies)

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