The Technologies Changing What It Means To Be a Programmer

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 11, 2014 @09:23AM from the keeping-up-with-the-times dept.

snydeq writes Modern programming bears little resemblance to the days of assembly code and toggles. Worse, or perhaps better, it markedly differs from what it meant to be a programmer just five years ago. While the technologies and tools underlying this transformation can make development work more powerful and efficient, they also make developers increasingly responsible for facets of computing beyond their traditional domain, thereby concentrating a wider range of roles and responsibilities into leaner, more overworked staff.

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moar idiot coderz by Anonymous Coward · 2014-08-11 09:29 · Score: 0, Troll

"The compiler should write my codes for me," the coder whined. "I don't want to deal with all this technical crap! I have business logic to implement and my roadmap to synergy is on a deadline. I know! I'll use clang. The pretty colors will tell me what to do."