How will you be programming in a decade?

Re:How will you be programming in a decade? by pjc50 on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:36AM (#10688790)

If I stay at my current employer, in 2025 I'll most likely be maintaining an MFC application in VS2015, quite possibly on the same workstation I'm using at the moment.

We don't update very often. Currently I'm using VS2008.

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Re:How will you be programming in a decade? by pluma on Monday December 07, 2015 @07:23AM (#10688964)

Heard of developers today using the 2005 version of their IDE because they need to support widespread legacy systems that won't be updated to newer software for the foreseeable future (and modern versions of the IDE have become incompatible).

Legacy is here to stay. There'll likely still be people hacking on COBOL in 2025.

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Re:How will you be programming in a decade? by dracul104 on Monday December 07, 2015 @08:39AM (#10689297)

At my last job, we were still supporting .NET 1.1 apps using Visual Studio 2003.

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Re:How will you be programming in a decade? by nemmons on Monday December 07, 2015 @10:03AM (#10689865)

At my last job, we were still supporting .dlls written in VB6. Last I heard they had plans to upgrade them to .NET by Q2 2016.

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