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For the field of programming language design ask yourself this question: what will programming be like in 50 years? Will we still be typing characters into VIM?
by jules 15y ago
For the field of programming language design ask yourself this question: what will programming be like in 50 years? Will we still be typing characters into VIM? I don't think so. Looking a little forward can go a long way.
- ajanuary 15y agoThat's what they kept saying 25 years ago, yet look where we are...
- apotheon 15y agoWell . . . what they said 25 years ago was probably about Berkeley vi, not Vim, so I guess in 50 years we'll be using something two generational advances forward from Vim.
- apotheon 15y agoHonestly, I think that in 50 years either we'll still be doing textual programming, just at a higher and more dynamic level, or we won't be doing any programming at all because the machines will have left our ability to contribute well behind.