Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT
by JesperRavn on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:05AM
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I can see progress.
Better languages: {C#, C++14, Go, Rust} > Java, {ES6, TypeScript} > JavaScript, and Python keeps getting better thanks to Python 3 and an better libraries.
Scaling: OpenCL and CUDA have both taken off, delivering everything they promised. Hadoop matured and spawned variants, and now Spark is starting a new cycle. Thanks to Amazon and Google we now have cheap computing cycles on tap with APIs usable by ordinary developers.
It seems to me that only Web Development and Mobile Apps are a morass. But web development was bound to be a step backwards given its strange history, while mobile app development can only be as good as the underlying platforms, which started from really rudimentary to get where they are now.
Better languages: {C#, C++14, Go, Rust} > Java, {ES6, TypeScript} > JavaScript, and Python keeps getting better thanks to Python 3 and an better libraries.
Scaling: OpenCL and CUDA have both taken off, delivering everything they promised. Hadoop matured and spawned variants, and now Spark is starting a new cycle. Thanks to Amazon and Google we now have cheap computing cycles on tap with APIs usable by ordinary developers.
It seems to me that only Web Development and Mobile Apps are a morass. But web development was bound to be a step backwards given its strange history, while mobile app development can only be as good as the underlying platforms, which started from really rudimentary to get where they are now.