Comment by sriku
8 years ago
.. and they're afraid, very afraid that if you give them that kind of power, they will make the creators roles irrelevant.
By echoing this in the echo chamber, we've perhaps deprived ourselves of getting enough collective experience with powerful programming tools to be able to establish good norms to teach high power maintainable programming. We're instead stuck in low level language wars.
Using type systems for system design anyone? Use Beta abstraction systematically?
> .. and they're afraid, very afraid that if you give them that kind of power, they will make the creators roles irrelevant.
That would be fantastic.
But right now most companies have a hard drive finding decent middle level dev.
Let's talk about your plan when american companies don't hire me to work from my bedroom in the south of France because they can't even find what they need in their own country anymore.
Unless you have a recipe to turn people that strugle with fizz buzz being able to magically understand complex abstractions.
> people that strugle with fizz buzz being able to magically understand complex abstractions
Are these the same ones who are "too smart for their own good"?
Read my comments again: you clearly missed the notion of proportion.