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40 hour max work weeks enforced and 4 day work weeks. Shifts for people that need to monitor ops. Offices for everyone on staff that like to work in a quiet place and pubic areas for people who like to work in those places . Also, the minimization of time spent in meetings .
> Another productivity booster is Cross-Platform frameworks. I would be so, so happy to see a UI framework that runs (well) on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. My druthers would be for it to have bondings to a JVM language (Kotlin is my happy place these days), but I would be okay writing in any similarly productive language. Flutter is trying to get there, but it's not a viable solution on the desktop yet, and…
I'm not sure that speed-to-market will be where the breakthroughs are. But constraining myself to that conditional...
The best one I can think of is a library of curated, easily embeddable snippets. Like Helm charts for code. We already have package managers, but as the industry grows more and more with a larger number (not necessarily percentage) of developers churning out sub-par code, companies are going to want to leverage reuse sans fear. You already see this curation with some languages/ecosystems having sets of blessed libraries, but a library is too high of an abstraction and it is language specific. Some group one day will offer embeddable, curated snippets (or entire libraries) that follow a certain set of rules to give confidence to their users and they will apply those rules (with language specifics) across runtimes. In both good and bad ways, some systems may end up being a walled garden of code where they only accept this curated code which, as walled gardens can be, are good for the users (i.e. devs referencing the code) and bad for the devs (i.e. devs writing new components being forced into others' rules).
Would you feel better with a "Guaranteed by StringentCodeTrust(tm)" seal on a library/repository you reference? A non-pragmatic middle manager at Big Corp might.
> Another productivity booster is Cross-Platform frameworks. I would be so, so happy to see a UI framework that runs (well) on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. My druthers would be for it to have bondings to a JVM language (Kotlin is my happy place these days), but I would be okay writing in any similarly productive language. Flutter is trying to get there, but it's not a viable solution on the desktop yet, and…
Genetically engineered Chinese super-programmers who don't need to sleep and don't feel pain.
Maybe the software industry will discover constraint programming the way that it discovered functional programming over the past decade. If it did, that would almost immediately increase programmer productivity for non-performance-critical tasks (since the compiler could supply the implementation), while making formal methods more easily applicable to production code & supplying the prerequisites for more clever auto…
The pendulum is now swinging back to types. Because it's a pendulum, in 5-10 years the next hot productivity thing is going to be dynamic, type-free languages. I still remember when people were excited by the productivity gains from Ruby. "No time wasted wrestling with casts and typing".
The underlying trend here is toward more pragmatic language design, and I think this is definitely a trend that will continue in the near future (5-10 years).
> Another productivity booster is Cross-Platform frameworks. I would be so, so happy to see a UI framework that runs (well) on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. My druthers would be for it to have bondings to a JVM language (Kotlin is my happy place these days), but I would be okay writing in any similarly productive language. Flutter is trying to get there, but it's not a viable solution on the desktop yet, and…
WebAssembly as the prevailing cross-platform VM and used as the main distribution mechanism for most applications.