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The two biggest things that have happened in programming for decades are: 1: StackOverflow 2: ChatGPT Nothing else comes close. Certainly not any new langua
by andrewstuart 4y ago
The two biggest things that have happened in programming for decades are:
1: StackOverflow
2: ChatGPT
Nothing else comes close. Certainly not any new language.
WHY these two things are the biggest developments in programming is because they help developers solve problems and learn new things from a global accumulation of programmer knowledge.
If there was a Nobel Prize for computing then both StackOverflow and ChatGPT would be deserving of it, or the people behind them anyway.
- echelon 4y agoStackOverflow is just expertsexchange without the dark patterns. An incremental improvement with an enormous impact.
- MattPalmer1086 4y agoAnd without the unfortunate way to misread the word boundaries in expertsexchange!
- davidjones332 4y ago[dead]
- andrewstuart 4y agoAnd Google is just Alta vista a bit different
- tgma 4y agoThis. I am actually super interested and positive about Mojo but I can't take the title seriously. Not even close. As is, it is basically a yet another new (completely distinct language from Python) that looks and feels kind of like Python and hopes to convert a bunch of users, but is not really Python, and embeds CPython in the same way that Swift (4TF) could already do (and a lot of random software also do to use Python as their scripting engine.)
- jph00 4y agoMy bad - I meant to write "Mojo may be the biggest programming language advance in decades" but forgot to write "language". I've updated the title now. (Although it doesn't update the HN title unfortunately.)
- nindalf 4y agoOnly dang can update titles here.
- Conscat 4y agoI would put HackerNews in that list as well.
- pharmakom 4y agoStatically typed functional programming is number 2 for me And stackoverflow is number 1 :)
- Alifatisk 4y ago3. Typescript 4. React 5. Rust
- Alifatisk 4y agoWhich are yall disagreeing with?
- jayd16 4y agoSeems a little flavor of the months. Why not Git/Github over ChatGPT considering its influence on ChatGPT itself?
- throwwwaway69 4y agoVersion control dates back to the 60s and early 70s. Not really the last decades, but literally the infancy of modern computing
- jayd16 4y agoSure, and so did helpful websites are quite old as well, but nothing is quite as prolific and consolidated as stackoverflow and github. The metric seems to be about subjective relevance not originality.
- qntmfred 4y agoif anything owes its success to being flavor of the month, it's git. mercurial was probably a better dvcs in the end, and svn wasn't all that bad before both of them. and as impactful as github has been, we had svn-based online open-source communities before git too. git/github was just there at the right time/place imo.
- rospaya 4y agoChatGPT was released 5 months ago, although it seems very important, I don't think we can fairly asses its legacy in this short time.
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- adverbly 4y agoWhat is meant by "decades"? GitHub? The cloud? GPUs? Multi core CPUs? Subscription models? SPAs? Ajax? VC funding? Mobile phones? I don't think you appreciate what has happened over the last several decades. I'm sure I'm missing a ton of things as well. Stack, overflow and chat GPT probably wouldn't even make my top five list over the last 3 decades. If you look 3 decades out, I'm sure there will be some AI stuff in there, but it is not even close to making the list right now IMO.