> what do you think will be a breakthrough innovation in programming which will enable programmers to deliver ambitious web/mobile apps at a very high speed I'

> what do you think will be a breakthrough innovation in programming which will enable programmers to deliver ambitious web/mobile apps at a very high speed I'm not sure that speed-to-market will be where the breakthroughs are. But constraining myself to that conditional... The best one I can think of is a library of curated, easily embeddable snippets. Like Helm charts for code. We already have package managers, but as the industry grows more and more with a larger number (not necessarily percentage) of developers churning out sub-par code, companies are going to want to leverage reuse sans fear. You already see this curation with some languages/ecosystems having sets of blessed libraries, but a library is too high of an abstraction and it is language specific. Some group one day will offer embeddable, curated snippets (or entire libraries) that follow a certain set of rules to give confidence to their users and they will apply those rules (with language specifics) across runtimes. In both good and bad ways, some systems may end up being a walled garden of code where they only accept this curated code which, as walled gardens can be, are good for the users (i.e. devs referencing the code) and bad for the devs (i.e. devs writing new components being forced into others' rules). Would you feel better with a "Guaranteed by StringentCodeTrust(tm)" seal on a library/repository you reference? A non-pragmatic middle manager at Big Corp might.