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I am surprised how pervasive is the idea that most of the applications has to be written in TC languages (I suspect it's more a historical accident, due to "ete
by js8 6y ago
I am surprised how pervasive is the idea that most of the applications has to be written in TC languages (I suspect it's more a historical accident, due to "eternal September" of people who came into IT from home computers; before that, there was a pretty strong divide between system and application programmers). I think when they talk about paradigm shift, this could be a paradigm shift. Using TC languages only for tools, but write the application logic (and systems configuration) in non-TC languages.
(Also see my earlier comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26248362)
- cantstopmyself 6y ago> due to "eternal September" of people who came into IT from home computers... I think this is spot-on. We have relatively fixed mental models for what computing should look like which are really just based on a few accidents of history. Bret Victor's famous "The Future of Programming" talk is a great reminder that our ambitions for what computing could be were once much broader than they are today.