[1]: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g...
[1]: https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-g...
If, by “scripting languages”, you mean “browser-native languages”, WebAssembly might become a serious contender as the lingua franca for the Web in the long term.
More generally, a globally connected civilization locks things in, once they are sufficiently widespread.
Barring an apocalypse, our present is eternity. I'm always amused when I read science fiction that assumes in the future, Chinese will be the lingua franca, or that we'll have political offices modeled after Ancient Rome, or that there's a world government, or similar nonsense.
To paraphrase O'Brien from 1984: "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a crony-capitalist, meme- and outrage-driven society that always seems on the brink of collapse but never actually does collapse – forever."
This idea is known as the end of history.