Writing Apps in Go and Swift

Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by dagw on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:09AM (#19033484)

Go is designed for armies of simple minded developers,

And that's a bad thing?

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by pjmlp on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:37AM (#19034562)

Not for companies of Google size wanting to reduce hiring and ongoing project costs.

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by lizmat on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:10AM (#19034418)

Simple minded developers are cheap. And in time, easily replaceable by moderately intelligent AI.

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by sethammons on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:37AM (#19034554)

The crowing achievements of AI that interact with people are Alexa et al. Alexa can't even tell me what the newest releases are for movies.

When we can talk to an AI and describe something novel and it can interpret that, then I'll start to worry about software development jobs being lost to AI.

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by pjmlp on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:38AM (#19034565)

What about being lost to low wages countries, with better wage countries keeping the roles of project management and architecture?

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by sethammons on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @07:51AM (#19034614)

Didn't that scare happen a while ago with everyone worried about India taking all the software jobs? Didn't really happen. Could happen again, sure. I don't think more advanced AI or more simple programming languages will be a large factor in that.

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Re:Writing Apps in Go and Swift by pjmlp on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:22AM (#19035731)

I can tell you that the trend to offshore is still pretty ongoing in full speed.

Naturally those developers are also entitled to have jobs, the question is how it is actually done in practice.

Sadly a large majority are sweetshops.

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