Languages: If framework bloat hasn't hit the global reset button on front-end development, something new in that space. .Net Core ~7 should be out by then. More

Languages: If framework bloat hasn't hit the global reset button on front-end development, something new in that space. .Net Core ~7 should be out by then. More Python. More Rust. Less PL/SQL(Oracle) & Java(Oracle) due to the licence issues. Possibly a lot more Java(Open source). Stack: In ~5 years we should be in the peak of the performance focus sine wave, moving away from microservices to tighter, more responsive architectures. In an ideal world devices like Google Glass will finally become mainstream and require the supporting developer resources to leverage them. Hardware: Nothing that will affect the average developer but I'm hoping some niche applications will have access to synthetic neuron cpus. Software: is always king. What: I hope the hype from machine learning/advanced memorisation will have died down (but still have it's place) though mostly replaced with clever and considered algorithms built by what will probably be a new job title that is a hybrid of data scientist and software architect - what computer scientists should have been doing all along.