Re:Ask HN: Will the future have several more programmers or ...
by visarga on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:03AM
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There will be just as many or more people using technology to solve problems, having access to a large number of methods.
But programming for user interfaces, networking and databases might not be the bread and butter of the future computer engineer, just like coding in assembly is rarely used today, even though all programs are eventually compiled into it.
We'll move higher on the abstraction stack. That will make programming both simpler and more complex, as C++ made programming both easier than assembly, and much more complicated, when you consider OOP.
But programming for user interfaces, networking and databases might not be the bread and butter of the future computer engineer, just like coding in assembly is rarely used today, even though all programs are eventually compiled into it.
We'll move higher on the abstraction stack. That will make programming both simpler and more complex, as C++ made programming both easier than assembly, and much more complicated, when you consider OOP.