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Ask HN: In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer?

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Re: Ask HN: In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer?

#13
Look over the last 10 years... http://visual.ly/popularity-programming-languages

That's search popularity, but that likely correlates well with actual use. 10 years is nothing to large enterprises, where the huge majority of programmers work. My company has files that haven't been touched in 6 years and still work - why change languages?

Re: Ask HN: In 10 years, what will be the role of the coder/developer?

#14

They'll be rewriting code, and reading hn when they get depressed.

Get stuck working on C and post the same questions in SO that were removed by highly strung moderators 5 years ago.

In 10 years they'll have a site devoted to the growing body of SO moderator jokes. Such as the following:

Q. What do you get if you cross a wild, ferocious, man-eating tiger with a Stack Overflow moderator.

A. A very dull tiger.

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