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Ask HN: What are your predictions for the programming industry going forward

3 points by DenverCode ↗ HN
I thought this was an interesting discussion on Reddit and thought I'd ask it here.

What are your 90% / 50% / 10% confident predictions for the programming industry in 2021 and upward?

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isubasinghe
90% confident programming languages will change to be more type safe, I'm going to say this is going to be where FP is now by about 2030.

50% chance of a new OOP language that incorporates a stronger type system to solve the problems of Java.

Rust has been why I've come to develop this opinion, going back to C code after Rust was difficult. Going back to python after some Haskell was also difficult. Type systems are an underrated productivity tool/feature.

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pgustafs
By 2030:

90% more advanced type systems

50% IDEs, github, and slack will merge into one monolithic social developer experience

10% end user programming using NLP