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> I think the future of programming (or I should say, one branch of it) is making programming easier, and letting the computer do more work. I think this is al
by hasenj 9y ago
> I think the future of programming (or I should say, one branch of it) is making programming easier, and letting the computer do more work.
I think this is already what is happening. Computers now are orders of magnitude faster than they were 15 years ago, and yet fundamentally nothing really got better. We just have more people producing lesser quality programs. While producing something is easier than before, the new things are not necessarily of good value, because a lot of the tools that enable this are layers upon layers of abstractions and virtualization (e.g. Electron).
I'm not sure that this is any good.
And fundamentally this is not that different from VB6, for example.
- derstr 9y agoThere was a time when typing a document in your computer meant you have to know an macro language (remember wordstar?) ... the current state of programming is such and a big barrier for non programmers. We need to make it easy just like MS word made it easy to type complex documents in the computer.
- hasenj 9y agoWriting documents is a use case for the general public. Writing code is not the same. In general, programming tools _are_ getting better (text editors, debuggers, IDEs, etc). The only barrier to non-programmers is learning how to program. It's the same with writing. The tools _are_ available. But you still need to know how to write. I mean how to put words together in a way that people would want to read.