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I had a deja-vu reading this article, sounds just like the things that were promised in the 80s, then the 90s and probably other times I missed. There are perio
by zwieback 9y ago
I had a deja-vu reading this article, sounds just like the things that were promised in the 80s, then the 90s and probably other times I missed. There are periodic tides of centralization and decentralization washing over the IT world.
I do feel things are different this time around, though. SW distribution really has been significantly improved and there are much better ways of doing client/server applications now.
As to graphical app development UIs taking over programming - I have my doubts.
- maze-le 9y agoI also had a deja-vu moment. When I began to study CS a professor of us really tried to get us into electrical engineering instead of CS. His basic argument was, that in 10 years programmers will basically be unemployed or on the verge of it, because even nowdays there are visual code generators that can create better code than most programmers could. That was 2004 and I think he was referring to LabVIEW. A lot of things have happened since then, but LabVIEW is still very much a niche application for a very specific domain. And code generators didn't magically abstract away integration, requirements optimization, scaling and architectural desision making.
- goatlover 9y ago> I had a deja-vu reading this article, sounds just like the things that were promised in the 80s, then the 90s and probably other times I missed Even the Smalltalk environment in the 70s, sort of. Not in replacing code, but making an environment where any end user could create their own applications, so they wouldn't have to rely on programmers.