Re:Ask HN: How do you think software development will look i...
by AnimalMuppet on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:48AM
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> Compare programming in 2000 vs programming today, what changed? We used C in 2000 and now we use Go.
Less even than that. C is more used than Go, even today.
> We need an actual advance in programming to avoid a future that looks like today except with 10x as much code to understand before you can do anything.
The future looks like better, more powerful libraries. You'll have 10x as much code, but you won't actually have to know 90% of it. (Until there's a library bug that matters to your program...)
Less even than that. C is more used than Go, even today.
> We need an actual advance in programming to avoid a future that looks like today except with 10x as much code to understand before you can do anything.
The future looks like better, more powerful libraries. You'll have 10x as much code, but you won't actually have to know 90% of it. (Until there's a library bug that matters to your program...)