Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#1

Post by sun123 » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 2:56 AM UTC

For one, I could think of Big Data/ Hadoop. In the past one year, at least ten "coaching institutes" have sprang up in the area I live (in Bangalore) claiming to teach Hadoop and promising high paying jobs.

I went in there for a "demo session", and they are like "you can learn Hadoop and get a high paying job with absolutely no programming experience".

Anyway, these places always get some kind of gullible people.

I think this is a fad, and it will die down soon. What do you think about this ? Do you think there are any other fads like this ?

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#2

Post by dpeck » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 3:18 AM UTC

React is on the way up.

"Big Data" and "Machine Learning" on the way down.

Theres a reasonably sized part of the software industry/ecosystem that likes to be really vocal about 1 thing every 12-18 months.

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#3

Post by Nortey » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 3:32 AM UTC

Nearly every time I log onto HN someones created a new .js project/framework/solution/whatever for something. Its usually a variation of some .js project that already exists.

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#4

Post by throwaway1410 » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 9:28 AM UTC

Dynamic languages on the backend?

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#5

Post by liviu- » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 2:12 PM UTC

throwaway1410 wrote: post #4

Dynamic languages on the backend?

That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#6

Post by gesman » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 3:37 PM UTC

Nortey wrote: post #3

Nearly every time I log onto HN someones created a new .js project/framework/solution/whatever for something. Its usually a variation of some .js project that already exists.

Some who'll launch .js TLD will make a killing on all these suckers :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#7

Post by halotrope » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 5:08 PM UTC

Completely subjective opinion from being avid HN user it would be Functional Programming, React Flavours, JS Frameworks with a sprinkle of ML. I have to say however, that apart from the ongoing dilution of the JS ecosystem it would feel like a very good development to leaner, less entangled, data-driven architectures with respect to new mongo-core era.

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#8

Post by VOYD » Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 5:56 PM UTC

Everything in the software industry is a "fad". How else can we keep marketers employed? ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

#9

Post by throwaway1410 » Wed, Jul 22, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

liviu- wrote: post #5

throwaway1410 wrote: post #4

Dynamic languages on the backend?

That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.

I think Java on the backend is still the de facto standard...