Agreed, but I’m looking for what’s next, not the current state of the industry or jobs. I’m riding the JS/TS wave for a while but I can already imagine improvements. If a language is rising, I’ll check it for those needs.
Nix has been getting attention among my friends. I’m still in “wait and see”. The next big thing after TS won’t be an incremental improvement. It will solve big problems like:
- Too many ways to do things. (Remove ambiguity. Instead, make choices for me so others’ code is predictable. Apple approach. Does Swift do this?)
- Naming suffering from backwards compatibility. (For…in vs for…of etc.)
- AI integration?
PHP is losing to JS due to 7.0 or whatever. Scala surprised me!
Scala is at 1.7% in the actual data, and it’s generally appropriate for a niche language like this (although Rust is below it, even though the HN bubble might make you think otherwise).
Nix has been getting attention among my friends. I’m still in “wait and see”. The next big thing after TS won’t be an incremental improvement. It will solve big problems like:
- Too many ways to do things. (Remove ambiguity. Instead, make choices for me so others’ code is predictable. Apple approach. Does Swift do this?)
- Naming suffering from backwards compatibility. (For…in vs for…of etc.)
- AI integration?
PHP is losing to JS due to 7.0 or whatever. Scala surprised me!