Re:Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020?
by codegeek on Monday December 17, 2012 @10:35AM
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"7 years ago (2006), what was different? What new techs have come out in that span?"
Even though I understand the overall point you are making, we had a few significant changes since 2006. The emergenc of iphone/ipad and the App Store/iOS programming.
Re:Ask HN: What will programming look like in 2020?
by mchannon on Monday December 17, 2012 @10:41AM
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Fair point. Still, what programming actually looks like for those environments (black monospaced text in large windows) is little changed.
2020 will see some new devices, but we won't be using our voices, LabVIEW-style icons, or a foreign character set to program these devices. I think in a number of ways it's reassuring that so little of programming skill itself is destined for obsolescence.
7 years ago (2006), what was different? What new techs have come out in that span?
Ruby on Rails had already been out for 18 months, though it hadn't gained its current level of adoption.
Github hadn't been launched until 2008 but the first Git had.
These differences suggest that whatever new technologies will be becoming mainstream have already launched. I submit that if you traveled forward in time 7 years you would not only be able to pick up programming in the media of the time without any review but you'd be hard-pressed to find what had changed.