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We are moving towards a time where the entire notion of programming languages would be nothing more than compiling a proper dataset.

Programming languages will not become irrelevant but would be more akin to the fate of humanities, likely a personal passion. The economic value of learning programming languages in the distant future would be close to none.

Programmers should view languages as nothing more than a tool to perform some tasks.

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Why exactly? Current mainstream programming languages have just started to move away from the “fancy C” paradigm (only named functions, classes, imperative control flow constructs) to “prototype ML” paradigm (lambda functions, records, user-defined operators). These features make languages way more expressive (enabling things like SwiftUI), so understanding language nuances will become even more important as more advanced language features find their way into popular languages. Obviously you do not need to be a an expert on compilers, but most powerful languages need some time investment in order to be used at their fullest potential.

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Ah so you're a moron

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