Coding is Dead. Long Live the Coders

Seems a little naive. I don't think our OSs, device drivers, X engines for X in [webbrowser, GUI, 3d engine, etc] will be just... done by front enders...

Chicken and egg: will "real coders" will make the last tool and die out to be replaced by front enders forever more? Who will maintain the tools and make them better.

This is silly

Better tools don't replace coders with front enders, they simply allow a greater percent of the general population in the form of front enders to participate at all in creation.

(also: comparing some excel plugin allowing python to the matrix brain downloader seems.... unjustified)

LOL this article starts out talking about writing excel macros.

Who does he think creates excel... or the os it runs on. It seems like the author is meaning script monkeys or something. The guys who take real applications' outputs and does whatever those guys do with them... not actual developers.

As soon as everyone learns to write there will be no need for writers.

This is one of the thinner pieces I've come across on the HN front page (as was the linked article). I'm not usually one to over-emphasize qualifications, but the author is making fairly bold assertions about an industry he is at best tangentially involved with.

"Professional Interest

Nick analyzes portfolio companies and their target markets to help them focus on opportunities for profitable growth.

Experience

Prior to joining OpenView in 2011, Nick worked at Echo Bridge Capital, a startup hedge fund in Boston. In his two years there, he analyzed prospective and current investment opportunities in the Consumer Discretionary sector, and helped write the quarterly investment letter."

This is one of the most nonsensical articles I've ever come across on the HN front page.

Synopsis:

1. Coding is dead (title)

2. Front-end development is being democratized by higher level paradigms, thereby obsoleting "coders" (defined loosely as those who code at the lower levels of abstraction)

3. BUT WAIT! Because programming has been made available to those who don't have the most fundamental level of understanding of the craft, this in turn liberates the low level guys to focus on stuff like optimizations, scalability, or robustness.

Er, wait, how is coding Dead again?

I'm assuming that these guys are investors in DataNitro, considering that both the VC firm and the startup are located in Boston, and since the submitter works at DataNitro.

I like DataNitro's product, I like the guys (whom I've talked to) at DataNitro personally, but this article is quite senseless.