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> you will need deeper knowledge to produce competitive software Alternative theory: there will continue to be bad programmers, but there will also be good mon
by mabbo 11y ago
> you will need deeper knowledge to produce competitive software
Alternative theory: there will continue to be bad programmers, but there will also be good money in compilers that can deal with it and turn crap into optimized goodness. Midas compilers.
I also suspect a few new language concepts (like Rusts ownership model) will need to be invented as well, to enforce certain optimizations with minimal cognitive load on the developer.
- pstrateman 11y ago> Alternative theory: there will continue to be bad programmers, but there will also be good money in compilers that can deal with it and turn crap into optimized goodness. Midas compilers. No amount of compiler optimization is going to fix algorithmic failures.
- mabbo 11y agoDepends on what limits you place on the definition of 'compiler'. Optimizing via better algorithmic choices is a semi-deterministic process performed by a human. Why can't a computer do it too? Code is just your way of telling the computer your intentions. Once it can understand those deeply, well, it can choose a better way to achieve those intentions.
- chipsy 11y agoThis has already happened with SQL databases. Performance tuning a database can be messy because sometimes you have to outsmart the query optimizer. But in the average case it is doing the Right Thing without you having to think about what engineering has gone into it. Demand for new data models is insatiable and for each one, a software ecosystem can develop around a similar degree of automation, tuned towards the specific domain. It's a very, very black-boxed future.