Coding is Dead. Long Live the Coders

Seems a little naive. I don't think our OSs, device drivers, X engines for X in [webbrowser, GUI, 3d engine, etc] will be just... done by front enders...<p>Chicken and egg: will "real coders" will make the last tool and die out to be replaced by front enders forever more? Who will maintain the tools and make them better.<p>This is silly<p>Better tools don't replace coders with front enders, they simply allow a greater percent of the general population in the form of front enders to participate at all in creation.<p>(also: comparing some excel plugin allowing python to the matrix brain downloader seems.... unjustified)

This is one of the thinner pieces I've come across on the HN front page (as was the linked article). I'm not usually one to over-emphasize qualifications, but the author is making fairly bold assertions about an industry he is <i>at best</i> tangentially involved with.<p>"Professional Interest<p>Nick analyzes portfolio companies and their target markets to help them focus on opportunities for profitable growth.<p>Experience<p>Prior to joining OpenView in 2011, Nick worked at Echo Bridge Capital, a startup hedge fund in Boston. In his two years there, he analyzed prospective and current investment opportunities in the Consumer Discretionary sector, and helped write the quarterly investment letter."

This is one of the most nonsensical articles I've ever come across on the HN front page.<p>Synopsis:<p>1. Coding is dead (title)<p>2. Front-end development is being democratized by higher level paradigms, thereby obsoleting "coders" (defined loosely as those who code at the lower levels of abstraction)<p>3. BUT WAIT! Because programming has been made available to those who don't have the most fundamental level of understanding of the craft, this in turn liberates the low level guys to focus on stuff like optimizations, scalability, or robustness.<p>Er, wait, how is coding <i>Dead</i> again?<p>I'm assuming that these guys are investors in DataNitro, considering that both the VC firm and the startup are located in Boston, and since the submitter works at DataNitro.<p>I like DataNitro's product, I like the guys (whom I've talked to) at DataNitro personally, but this article is quite senseless.

LOL this article starts out talking about writing excel macros.<p>Who does he think creates excel... or the os it runs on. It seems like the author is meaning script monkeys or something. The guys who take real applications' outputs and does whatever those guys do with them... not actual developers.

As soon as everyone learns to write there will be no need for writers.

On the one hand, assembly developers are just assembler end users. If you don't directly manipulate the silicon, you're only a plumber.<p>On the other hand, ifttt and excel are both programs for crunching information, same as a compiler. They're not as powerful or expressive, but that's no more of a constraint than a limited kitchen is to an enterprising chef. Just because you don't use the same tools they had in the past doesn't make you a poser.<p>Programmers make machines out of logic. You can tackle hard problems or easy problems at any level of abstraction. Whether you're good or bad doesn't depend on what tools you use, but what you create.

That is the most obnoxious site I have ever been to. I closed the window after having to close two Popups to continue reading.

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