I'm convinced that IF you can make this work, it's the future. 'Programmers' will still do what they currently do... But instead of writing applications, they

I'm convinced that IF you can make this work, it's the future. 'Programmers' will still do what they currently do... But instead of writing applications, they'll be writing compilers. (Or whatever we end up calling the programs that turn declarative code into programs.) This will lead to a rise in a new job. Instead of coding, they'll be describing applications. And done right, it should be easier than coding. Initially, the 'compilers' will be pretty bad at what they do. The code they produce won't have memory leaks and such, but it'll be horribly inefficient. But thing will gradually get better and better until machines are writing better code than humans, for the majority of applications. Eventually, as with current self-hosting compilers, new self-hosting compilers will be created and programmers will be phased out. This will be quite an interesting day. One thing I see holding this back is computing power. The initial horribly-inefficient programs will be created by horribly-inefficient 'compilers'. They'll take insane amounts of processing power to do their jobs. Eventually, this will get better, and processing power will increase, though. It may be that we aren't at a point where it's plausible yet.