Lots of comments about which technologies are becoming popular. what about things that have lost popularity? Ie. Ruby on Rails and Hadoop
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#72Frontend hottest: Next.js/Typescript/React w/ hooks. Backend hottest: Rust, Graphql is gaining adoption at the enterprise level. Edit: ML is still very hot but tough to get a job as a Data Scientist without actual experience.
nextjs? whats that you meant "nestjs"?
https://nextjs.org/
It's a server side rendered framework for React. It can also do static sites but doesn't have as many plugins as Gatsby JS, which focuses on static site building with React.
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#73Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?
#74A lot of good answers here, but none seem to mention that asp.net core is improving a lot and getting traction. Microsoft bought GitHub and LinkedIn. Oracle is disliked like before.
I also see this. As a dark matter .NET Dev I realized that in the last 5 years C# and .NET is now treated fairly. It is widely regarded now as a valid choice with no limitations (like costs or OS).
The universal availability of debugging and intelligence in all relevant editors (Code, Atom, vim, emacs, etc) through the LSP and the related debug protocol make things easy.
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#76Serverless is getting bigger.
But no longer a silver bullet. Costs to be calculated.
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#77In the JVM space there are now new web frameworks that specialize in Microservices. The advantages they offer are very low memory usage, better performance, fast startup time and finally the ability to generate a native executable via GraalVM [0]. [0] A lot of JEE Frameworks heavily rely on reflection and other dynamic features that cannot be used in a native image.
Jakarta EE has officially taken over the Java EE spec, tlc, ...
Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?
#78GPT-2
https://openai.com/blog/gpt-2-1-5b-release/
https://talktotransformer.com/
https://github.com/openai/gpt-2
(GPT-2 docker image needs a version tweak to get it working)
and BERT:
Re: Ask HN: I'm away from the software industry since 2017; what has happened since?
#79The most interesting developments have been in infrastructure. AWS has started to take on third-party, open source components e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB as they run out of things to build. Expect them to continue further up the stack possibly into applications. Kubernetes has really taken off with every cloud provider having a solid implementation. And it's getting massive adoption within the enterprise a…
>"AWS has started to take on third-party, open source components e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB as they run out of things to build."
I'm aware of their Elasticsearch and MoongoDB offerings but what is their Cassandra offering?
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#80We are running out of nouns to name js frameworks.
I used to troll my old housemate (web frontend guy) by saying something along the lines of "Oh, Node.JS? Yeah some people I work with use that, but they're mostly moving over to Pangolin with Clamp on the backend." (substituting Pangolin and Clamp for any other nouns)
I don't think he ever caught on.