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Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by melling »

mixedCase wrote: post #5

Probably the most surprising thing for you: Go is getting generics. No exact timeline, but it's happening for Go 2.0. Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software. Ecosystem still not big or mature enough to make big waves, however, but that depends on how you interpret "big waves". SPAs are used and abused, t…

How popular is React?

I haven’t done much web development in several years myself.

Typescript is mentioned a lot on HN. Saw ReasonML mentioned recently. Vue.js has a movie on the way.

As far as Web frameworks go, what’s popular seems to change every couple years.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by api »

ianai wrote: post #8

There seems to be a lot more skepticism towards AI/ML and especially anyone pitching their product as using it. I think the requirements to do data science as a job description have ballooned as well - we’re talking requirements for having a PhD and lots of experience. I could be misrepresenting from just what I’ve read here but trying to be helpful. Ymmv

Block chain and cryptocurrency is another thing that's gone from unhinged hype to heavy skepticism.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by snazz »

melling wrote: post #11
mixedCase wrote: post #5

Probably the most surprising thing for you: Go is getting generics. No exact timeline, but it's happening for Go 2.0. Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software. Ecosystem still not big or mature enough to make big waves, however, but that depends on how you interpret "big waves". SPAs are used and abused, t…

How popular is React? I haven’t done much web development in several years myself. Typescript is mentioned a lot on HN. Saw ReasonML mentioned recently. Vue.js has a movie on the way. As far as Web frameworks go, what’s popular seems to change every couple years.

React hasn’t lost any significant steam. You’re far more likely to get a job at a non-tech-centric company doing React today than you were.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by tpmx »

SPA:s are now being overused for no particular reason, particularly by junior talents, who by now have been taught this is the one and only way to build Professional™ web sites.

The Javascript frontend scene almost literally exploded, in various ways.

Webasm got some serious traction. Old serious people like this, becuase it may eventually allow them to avoid the increasingly crazy javascript scene.

Computer vision (by means of machine learning/deep learning) got quite a bit easier to use, even if you're not a PhD in Computer Vision. Real-time inference from static photos is now easy. Real-time inference from video is still sorta hard/expensive, depending on your deployment target (embedded, backend).

Python people are still using Python even though it's dead slow.

A bunch of people moved from Java to Go and suddenly felt a lot happier.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by vbezhenar »

I feel like nothing really changed. Rust still is a cool project, JS still has plenty of frameworks, SPA still a thing, Go still a thing, Data Science and Machine Learning is still thrown everywhere. Blockchain hype is dead, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

#17

Post by Scarbutt »

Java's market share is declining fast.

Ruby and Clojure are dead, literally for Clojure, most libs are from >7 years ago.

Javascript(and TS) and Python are the tools of the trade to achieve most common things.

Devs are starting to realize how they got fooled by Rust's marketing/hype train for general purpose programming/exploration/prototyping and productivity because it's too restrictive and its compile times are atrocious.

A more accurate Rust slogan:

A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software at a very high cost.

Which is fine is you really need that efficiency.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by lohengramm »

mixedCase wrote: post #5

Probably the most surprising thing for you: Go is getting generics. No exact timeline, but it's happening for Go 2.0. Rust is seeing production use in many places and its being accepted more as the sane alternative to C for modern development of high performance software. Ecosystem still not big or mature enough to make big waves, however, but that depends on how you interpret "big waves". SPAs are used and abused, t…

Go getting generics is definitely surprising. I used to even argue in favor of Go the way it is.

If there's one thing I got from these responses, is that I should look at Kubernetes.

Thank you for your answer.

Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?

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Post by threeseed »

Scarbutt wrote: post #17

Java's market share is declining fast. Ruby and Clojure are dead, literally for Clojure, most libs are from >7 years ago. Javascript(and TS) and Python are the tools of the trade to achieve most common things. Devs are starting to realize how they got fooled by Rust's marketing/hype train for general purpose programming/exploration/prototyping and productivity because it's too restrictive and its compile times are at…

Should clarify that first statement.

Java market share is declining but the JVM is still as good as ever. Instead everyone is moving to Kotlin and Scala.

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