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Editions will look like band-aids that don't fully solve the cruft accumulated over the 50 years. That's not hard to predict. It's still a very useful mechanism

• pjmlp 1y ago
  In any case, while I as language geek have these kind of discussions, given current progress in AI systems, my point of view is that we will get the next evolution in programming systems, thus it won't matter much if it is C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, Go or whatever. We (as in the industry) will eventually get reliable ways to generate applications directly to machine code, just as optimizing compilers took a couple of decades to beat hand written Assembly, and generate reliable optimized code. So editions, regardless of what they offer, might not be as relevant in such a timeframe from a couple of decades ahead.
  • Expurple 1y ago
    The machine code will always be generated from "something". A one-line informal prompt isn't enough. There will always be people who write specs. Even the current languages are already far from "machine code" and could be considered "specs", albeit low-level
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      Indeed, I never said it was a bare bones prompt.