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Right. I wanted to focus though in the most "demanded" programs back then and now. I would say back then, the most demanded programs were command line programs

Right. I wanted to focus though in the most "demanded" programs back then and now. I would say back then, the most demanded programs were command line programs (small utilities that do one thing well). Nowadays the most "demanded" programs are programs that want to attract as many users as possible (and so, they have to "scale", they have to be "distributed"), programs that need to grow as much as possible (the bigger the program the bigger the company the bigger the profit), programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years. I guess the mentality has changed along the way as well.

cies 6y ago
Demanded is a weird term here. No one demands "ls", not the banks/insurance companies back then, not the Twitter users today. It's a tool, not an application. You dont buy your computer (or cloud VM) to run "ls". Back in the days consumers were not in the software picture so much. Maybe some pre-PCs were catering for home users, maybe some BBS to dial into, but that was it. This has changed. And this is why we have Twitter. > programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years. Where do you get this from? I dont see such trend at all. Okay, some library needs to be replaced, and we share more code nowadays (the stacks are deeper, but what would you expect? more cycles to burn and more ecosystems). But no-one factors in the cost of constant rewriting to stay up to date with the hippest stacks.
- bigiain 6y ago
  > > programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years. > Where do you get this from? I'd guess front end dev. 3 years is positively prehistoric laughing material for all the up and coming resume-driven-development front end rockstars.
  - thiht 6y ago
    No it's not, get your facts checked. React.js for instance is 7 years old and here to stay. Angular 2+ and Vuejs are both younger but here to stay too. Frontend dev has largely matured and stabilized, it's not the shit show it used to be anymore.

cies 6y ago

Demanded is a weird term here. No one demands "ls", not the banks/insurance companies back then, not the Twitter users today. It's a tool, not an application. You dont buy your computer (or cloud VM) to run "ls". Back in the days consumers were not in the software picture so much. Maybe some pre-PCs were catering for home users, maybe some BBS to dial into, but that was it. This has changed. And this is why we have Twitter. > programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years. Where do you get this from? I dont see such trend at all. Okay, some library needs to be replaced, and we share more code nowadays (the stacks are deeper, but what would you expect? more cycles to burn and more ecosystems). But no-one factors in the cost of constant rewriting to stay up to date with the hippest stacks.

bigiain 6y ago
> > programs that need to be rewritten in new tech stacks every 3 or so years. > Where do you get this from? I'd guess front end dev. 3 years is positively prehistoric laughing material for all the up and coming resume-driven-development front end rockstars.
- thiht 6y ago
  No it's not, get your facts checked. React.js for instance is 7 years old and here to stay. Angular 2+ and Vuejs are both younger but here to stay too. Frontend dev has largely matured and stabilized, it's not the shit show it used to be anymore.