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Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? (cheney.net)

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-the-same-but-with-carpal-tunnel dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Programmer Dave Cheney raised an interesting question today: How will you be programming in a decade? If you look back to a decade ago, you can see some huge shifts in the software industry. This includes the rise of smartphones, ubiquitous cloud infrastructure, and containers. We've also seen an explosion of special-purpose libraries and environments, many with an emphasis on networking and scaling. At the same time, we still have a ton of people writing Java and C and Python. Some programmers have jumped headfirst into new tools like Light Table, while others are still quite happy with Emacs. So, programmers of Slashdot, I ask you: How do you think your work (or play) will change in the next ten years?

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  1. Easy. by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    With a gesture-based interface connected to my fishing rod.

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  2. programming by telling programmers what to program by bigpat · · Score: 5, Funny

    In ten years I intend to be programming in management speak, functional specifications and almost completely useless and barely intelligible pseudo code.

  3. Judging by past performance? by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poorly.

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  4. But...they told me Agile was eternal... by engineerErrant · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Scrum Lord says that I'll drive peak stakeholder value for a billion years if I but open my heart to the One True Methodology.

  5. Re:The old-fashioned way! by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I directly load programs into memory though the tape-in port by modulating my flatulence into a microphone.

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