Ask HN: In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer?
In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer?
What type of languages (functional, behavioral, beyond cryptic code, ?) do you think will be used mostly?
What type of languages (functional, behavioral, beyond cryptic code, ?) do you think will be used mostly?
Instead you will have people that are a something that uses programming or has the skill of coding. We are kind of seeing this with the data scientist phenomenon.
Instead of a lot of weight being on which programming language you know, Java or C++ the question will be what kind of domain expertise do you have. There will be a proliferation of many DSL type languages to accompany this.
That's search popularity, but that likely correlates well with actual use. 10 years is nothing to large enterprises, where the huge majority of programmers work. My company has files that haven't been touched in 6 years and still work - why change languages?
Q. What do you get if you cross a wild, ferocious, man-eating tiger with a Stack Overflow moderator.
A. A very dull tiger.
I think functional programming will be a bit more popular a decade from now, but doubt it would represent a majority of the code being written.
As development become more accessible to people, developers will be the construction workers of the XXI century.