Flipping through the source code is like a time machine tour of tech's evolution over the past 50 years. It made me wonder: will our 2025 code look as ancient by 2075?
And, btw, great infographics within the post.
And, btw, great infographics within the post.
I think 2075 developers will feel the same way about modern Java, C#, TypeScript, etc.
They will think of themselves as software developers but they won't be writing code the same way, they'll be giving guided instructions to much higher level tools (perhaps AIs that themselves have a provenance back to modern LLMs)
Just as today there will still be those that need to write low level critical code. There are still lots of people today that have to write Assembler, though end up expressing it via C or Rust. And there will be people still working on AI technology. But even those will be built off other AI's.
So my money is that the code I wrote today is the joke of tomorrow - for all involved.
Also, I for one don’t want to go back to punch cards ;)
I am guessing that generation that transitioned from Pax Romana to early middle ages in Europe.
Remember it took until the Renaissance until ancient texts (Greek and Roman) were “rediscovered” by European scholars.