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

Software technologies from 20 and even 40 years ago run today, and programmers continue using them. Looking at history the most likely answer to your question is “All of them.”

Almost everything presented as something new in the software development field actually just retreads something from the past. Truly new ideas and techniques come along rarely.

Emacs and some Vi-likes. Some people are very attached to their editors and their configs.

Java, probably, considering the billions of devices that run it.

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, ...