The death of scripting
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The death of scripting
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#2All very true. But what to do about it? The hubris, that is.
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#3Every application I use daily is scriptable. My OS is scriptable. My shell is scriptable. My text editor is scriptable. I hate to be negative, but I call BS.
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#4I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software.
Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
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#5I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software. Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically impossible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.
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#6I think the OP is bemoaning a paradigm shift - cloud computing, with all the implications - without fully understanding it. The best modern applications are built of APIs, and they are composable. It's practically my personal working definition of "best" (certainly popularity isn't the key). Perhaps the author had a bad experience with a few popular services.
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#7I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software. Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically im possible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.
History lesson: It never was possible on 3270 smart terminals, either.
We've had a shift back to centralized data storage and processing.
There were a few decades - the 1980s & 1990s & 2000s - where the canonical master of a data set might have been local to the user, but cloud computing has moved data back to DCs for centralized storage & processing. And we are using very smart terminals.
Re: The death of scripting
#8I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software. Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically im possible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.
Be careful there - the bulk of computing is always in the background - the consumption of the results of that computing may move towards phones.
Take banking as an example, pulling up your bank balance, or making an online payment, is nowhere near the computing power of actually balancing the transactions at all banks across the world each night. You get a tiny sliver of a tiny report of the computing that happens in the background.
Entertainment, personal tools, communication - those are moving mobile. But that is just the surface.
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#9Utter garbage click-bait and FUD. "Scripting" in the form of writing code in high-level programming languages is not going away anytime in the foreseeable future.
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#10I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software. Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.
I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically im possible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.
> scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows
[citation needed]