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And? In the 1990s _nobody_ but the people most interested in computers used the Internet, now it's a commodity. Of course there's going to be a huge difference
by endless1234 10y ago
And? In the 1990s _nobody_ but the people most interested in computers used the Internet, now it's a commodity. Of course there's going to be a huge difference in that statistic.
- owebmaster 10y agoThat is the point. The ratio of people developing and people consuming is, imo, a healthy indicator of the internet. And we are, in the last decade and amid all the efforts to encourage people to code, having less people interested in software development than before. My main guess is that a lot of potential developers became content creators in silloed social networks.
- glhaynes 10y agoWhy do you say there are less people interested in software development than before? (And do you mean less absolutely or less as a fraction of the whole?)
- owebmaster 10y agoBecause before, to be a content creator on the internet you had to be a developer. Now, you don't need, you can use software created by others. This is good, is abstraction building. But it doesn't come for free. I don't have numbers to back my impression, though :) (I mean fraction of the whole, but I would love to have the data to see if we are not having more people leaving software development due to increasing complexity or retired tech than joining. How many have left software development with the downfall of Delphi, Visual Basic, Clipper?).