I totally agree. My statement about simple vs. easy is actually a weak attempt at restating some of the principles that guided the design of Clojure (from Rich Hickey's talk "Simple Made Easy": http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy) JS is approaching big apps with Node.js, and Clojure is approaching browser JS with ClojureScript... not sure how it will play out.

What are the current trends in language use? Are people moving away from Python, Java, and C++? and if so, to what?