The modern practice of programming is increasingly around social acts of building software with your team and surrounding community. Yet, evidenced by even this

The modern practice of programming is increasingly around social acts of building software with your team and surrounding community. Yet, evidenced by even this discussion thread, when someone says 'design' and 'hci', the focus gets tunnel vision around the individual user experience. Rethinking the individual human factors of languages is great. But for broader impact, I've long shifted towards rethinking the socio-technical design. When I think of what's interesting about Go and NodeJS, and about even more ambitious ideas for the next 10 years, my head is around languages built for communities of programmers. Even better, designing languages that improve over time by leveraging the combined activities of programmers and users, in code and out.