This chapter hopes to reassure you that the future is bright that is things are changing in the cloud era, and we will soon be able to use the right programming language to support our thinking. We will be able to write code using FaaS, microservices, and endpoints, to which IoT devices will send data. Almost everything will go through gateways and hit your services through APIs. In the last three decades, we have seen the development of many programming languages, which have been worked on by numerous programmers. Are all these programming languages meant for the future? We would say no; very few languages provide appropriate support for the world of integration through APIs. Node.js is perhaps the only one that is trying to fulfil the principles of REST programming.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the language of the future....
