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Probably embedded stuff. Web dev will probably die down, and with robots and automation and IoT becoming more prevalent, embedded programming will probably bec
by Niksko 10y ago
Probably embedded stuff.
Web dev will probably die down, and with robots and automation and IoT becoming more prevalent, embedded programming will probably become popular.
But hopefully by then embedded devices won't force us to us languages like C or C++. If the manufacture of embedded platforms scales up enough (more than it already has) then maybe we'll get devices with gigabytes of ram and insanely fast processors, so we can just write code in whatever language we like and have it be performant.
A pipe dream maybe, but it wasn't that long ago that people were exclusively writing in assembler when performance was critical.
- pjmlp 10y agoThere are Basic, Pascal, Oberon and Java compilers for embedded systems, but it is a niche market. As for C and C++ being fast. They are now, but once upon a time their compilers generated very bad code for home computers, those that are nowadays used as embedded ones. Yet mainframes less powerful than the PDP-11, already had better languages available.