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This is absurd. How many people where creating their own languages 20 years ago? Everyone and their grand ma is building new languages on top of javascript.
by segmondy 12y ago
This is absurd. How many people where creating their own languages 20 years ago? Everyone and their grand ma is building new languages on top of javascript. The expertise level of software engineers is going up! 20 years ago, how many people could build a VM from the ground up? Have you visited github lately? Sure, an average engineer can do much more today, and the reason is because of these great engineers, and they are not fewer by any means.
- coldtea 12y agoWhat you said actually corroborates what I wrote. >How many people where creating their own languages 20 years ago? 20 years ago? Far less. That means writing a language is getting more commoditized -- and we work in a higher, easier, level of abstraction. That's what TFA says about other spheres of development and deployment too. >Sure, an average engineer can do much more today, and the reason is because of these great engineers, and they are not fewer by any means. Neither I, nor the article, said there are fewer great engineers. Only that fewer great engineers are (and fewer still will be) needed. Both as a percentage of all great engineers, and in absolute numbers.
- marktangotango 12y agoI can't substantiate it, but there were in fact a lot of languages being created through the 60's to 90's. One could argue the language implementors of old were quiet daring, push boundaries much more than today (see APL and ICON as examples). sed and awk arose in an era of language explosion, make, sql, the list goes on.