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I feel like programming language designers should see themselves as quite beleaguered at the moment.

Even prior to full AI replacement, a properly trained AI will be able to take English language and effectively translate it to machine code, assembly code, or C code.

It doesn't really make much sense to have the human at the this layer for much longer.

Microsoft stock has been going gangbusters for the past 6 months.

What's their excuse for layoffs?

When a company is doing well, if it lays off, I think we're looking at a fundamental problem.

Why bother learning violin or creating video games when AI does it much better and faster?

> And things like Tailwind/CSS-in-JS are quickly making traditional CSS skills obsolete

This statement literally makes no sense.

Lots of people pretending Google has Microsoft's best interests at heart.

Alright, well, don't do that.

There is almost zero application for Swift outside of an Apple environment. I'm willing to bet there is precisely zero production code written in Swift for Windows (or Linux).

Anyhow, the Windows API (.net, C#) is better and has a brighter future and present.

>Now if only Apple would put more effort into cross-platform support for Swift...

You made the mistake of thinking Swift is a programming language and not just the Apple API.