Comment by flohofwoe
3 years ago
> So minimum declarative stuff will be enough to create the amount of software now built by lot of engineers.
That idea is the nuclear fusion of software development, it's always just 15 years away, even 50 years ago ;)
Do you believe it would happen?
In the early 2000s we had a Prof. for a course called "Hardware Technology". He really wanted us to get into electrical engineering and hardware focussed low level development, because according to him "SW development is dead, software can be created from specs and flowcharts by now". Great course, we learned about FPGAs and VHDL, but that advice really didn't stand the test of time.
Only in some niches, mostly related to data management, e.g. the same places where declarative programming already succeeds.
I do agree though that the programming world is currently completely overstaffed, and that this has a bad overall effect on quality and progress, but this has 'business reasons', not 'rational reasons' and technological magic bullets are not the solution ;)