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I DO think "programming" in 10 years will look quite a bit different than today. For that to come, a paradigm shift would need to happen. Now what could cause
by NotUsingLinux 11y ago
I DO think "programming" in 10 years will look quite a bit different than today.
For that to come, a paradigm shift would need to happen. Now what could cause that shift? In my opinion its blockchain technology.
I think one of the platforms which allow to run Code on blockchain will reach critical mass, here is a nice intro talk to one of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo
You may ask but what about my beloved javascript, c++, python or java? Well there is plenty of that used in the implementation of ethereum. And they even try to make their language look like javascript a lot ( look for solidity) to attract developers. But those are just aesthetics which come due to bootstrapping.
And bootstrapping is THE key issue here which eve doesn't even begin to deal with, which would deal with interesting questions like:
How many programs/functions/snippets would a blockchain need to become "liveable" by itself? 10000? 100000? more?
People today think but I do this great "app" and people cando such cool things with it. But the point is, very much as Alan Kay also says, apps are just the wrong thought. Appstores are a JOKE for the end user, you can buy what you want , genius, but can you combine two programms to make it do soemthing interesting? No you can't, you would need files and formats , but ahh.. that war has been lost way long ago.
We need maximal flexible programs, code, snippets. Write something on your own, include something here, send a message there and so on. Something like a giant gloabal object or actor space.
Digital Identity, no user EVER wants to log in, remember? So just get that working, it can be solved with the crypto infrastructure in place.
Scaling to millions of users? Scaling to billion of users?
Most of the solutions, which try something today, including eve, try to do something which is based on a webbrowser. But the point of these "future" things should be how to bootstrap OFF the current browser (technical AND content wise) mess we have today.
So no I'dont see eve giving anything of interest, I don't see it capable to grow into a network. If eve tries to "solve" programming I can't see it, I made some notes about other interesting approaches here:
https://gist.github.com/AndreasS2501/30ffda6d10b1c7ac53b1 https://gist.github.com/AndreasS2501/30ffda6d10b1c7ac53b1