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1996: OOP all the code! 2000: XML all the data! 2004: AJAX all the websites! 2008: JQuery all the browser code! 2012: Nodejs all the website backends! 2016: Typ
by labrador 5y ago
1996: OOP all the code!
2000: XML all the data!
2004: AJAX all the websites!
2008: JQuery all the browser code!
2012: Nodejs all the website backends!
2016: TypeScript all the JavaScript!
2018: Rust all the system code!
- rfrey 5y agoOMG it's in four year cycles. We have six months to sell our startups and get out.
- dsr_ 5y agoYou can see it coming, so you can pivot your startup to be buzzword compliant with the new thing instead of the old thing, or you can make your startup into a consultancy to help people do the old thing that they now feel very behind on.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI remember visiting a potential client who ranted about their existing solution before we started talking about replacing it. I didn't tell them I'd implemented the existing system whilst working for their previous supplier.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoUS presidential elections were about technology fads all along!
- Sammi 5y agoThe first half of that list were just the best options available at the time (in any practical sense). After that you start listing things that aren't nearly universal.
- admissionsguy 5y agoWhat's up for 2022? k8s all backends?
- CRConrad 5y ago2016 --> 2018? Shouldn't that have been 2020, or did you switch to mid-terms there? If we put "Rust all the system code!" at 2020, we have four years to think about what the next one is going to be.