One other important thing to keep in mind when considering that crowd is that all of them are game programmers, which face a very different set of constraints t

One other important thing to keep in mind when considering that crowd is that all of them are game programmers, which face a very different set of constraints than web developers (which is what I think a lot of people here are) face. That being said, I do like a lot of what they have said in the past. Not to say that the above aren't all examples of skilled programmers, and likely much more practical than a lot of people, just that they have a very different experience in the world than say, Uncle Bob or Martin Fowler. (Some of the more "best practices" developers). I think an overarching trend is that programmers in general are realizing that "best practices" like all the OOP design patterns (like the flyweight or adapter patterns) are better if you don't have to go out of your way to accommodate them, but they fit into the language well. The movement of languages like Rust, Go and Elixir (what I've been able to investigate lately) away from class-based OOP by splitting it up into its various pieces (subtyping, polymorphism, code sharing, structured types) is a good trend for the programming industry IMO. I'm looking forward to more improvements in the ability to statically verify code a la Rust. Also exciting is the improvements that C# is getting from Joe Duffy's group to help it reduce allocations and GC pressure. It's an exciting time to be in software development and to be following PTL development, some meaningful progress seems to be happening.