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Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?

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Re: Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?

#21
The linux kernel for sure. Servers and smart phones. It may not conquer the business desktop soon, but the desktop is a smaller piece of the pie every year.

Relational databases will be around forever. The nature of data does not change. Relational data will always be a good fit for an RDBMS.

I think skill in low level languages like C will have less market share in the job market, but always needed. It could be a lucky financial boon for people who have these skills, as they will be a rare commodity.

Re: Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?

#24

IBM has maintained backwards compatibility with OS/360 for like 50 years now so I think that is a pretty safe bet.

From what I hear the compatibility is insane. Apparently unmodified OS/360 binaries run the same on a recent z/OS mainframe.

Re: Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?

#28

That's easy: Python, Java, C++, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, Postgres, MySQL,... A better question would be: what software technologies will not be around 20 years from now? My bet: Babel, npm, Vue.js, React, Angular, Zend, most of the SaaS/IaaS we know and use, Kubernetes, Visual Studio Code, ...

Visual Studio Code! :O

Re: Ask HN: What software technologies will still be around 20 years from now?

#29
I started my career as a ColdFusion and Mainframe developer, and even those systems are still running today. Drupal was created 20 years ago, and I have worked on multiple Drupal codebases this year. I learned Django and Rails in 2005 or 2006 and both are still very relevant. So I would say there are too many to count.
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