alt Hacker News> The most popular programming languages in 2030 will, in fact, be English and Mandarin. Deal with it and get over it.
What are you willing to bet?
> The most popular programming languages in 2030 will, in fact, be English and Mandarin. Deal with it and get over it.
What are you willing to bet?
I'm game. Say $1000, donated to a charity of the winner's choice? How do you want to set the bet up, and how do you think it should be decided?
To be precise: I will bet that high-level programming languages won't be any less popular as a whole, but the vast majority of code will be written by AI rather than humans, working from specs written in natural language or something very close to it.
What we call "source code" today will be thought of as "object code" by 2030. Something that occasionally needs to be inspected by humans, but rarely authored directly. Anyone not writing code this way had better be doing it as a hobby, because almost no one will pay for it.