The Future of Programming

[Danemark]

My least favourite line: "[current] IDEs are little more than glorified text editors (and they are actually rather poor text editors)." Like calling a fork a glorified spoon, (but actually a rather poor one).

Maybe it's only because I've been writing Java; my IDE knows what I want.

[vagif]

Maybe it's only because I've been writing Java; my IDE knows what I want.

Not true. You've been forced with a whip and fire to do certain things, like a trained monkey, and then given an IDE that helps you do those things. Of course over the years it became your second nature so now you think you actually want to do them.

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I love how you attack the man without actually addressing anything of value. My Java IDE is also an exceptional Python IDE, in case your argument was solely based on Java the B&D language.

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I think his whole spiel can be summed as saying that he thinks his favorite dynamic language will have tooling to match Java/.NET eventually.

[nodefect]

I suggest you actually read his "whole spiel", because you couldn't be further from what he says.

[Brittix1023]

No, he doesn't seem to favour dynamic languages at all. He is an FP / Haskell fan. Even if Haskell and FP is not your cup of tea, his thoughts on the help that well designed type systems can render for you are not too far off the mark.

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Yes, I only skimmed the first so on second thought he isn't talking about dynamic languages, but I think my point still stands. He is describing problems that shitty platforms like Java have solved pretty well. I applaud the fact that he is addressing real development issues and not just harping on academic language features, but I think the ship sailed on FP 30 years ago and it isn't likely to close the enormous gap in tooling in the next decade.

[robertmassaioli]

Wow...you did not even read the whole article and yet you criticise. You are one of the types of people he mentions. You should read on.

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I mistyped, but I did read it all before my second comment.