For one, I could think of Big Data/ Hadoop. In the past one year, at least ten "coaching institutes" have sprang up in the area I live (in Bangalore) claiming to teach Hadoop and promising high paying jobs.<p>I went in there for a "demo session", and they are like "you can learn Hadoop and get a high paying job with absolutely no programming experience".<p>Anyway, these places always get some kind of gullible people.<p>I think this is a fad, and it will die down soon. What do you think about this ? Do you think there are any other fads like this ?
React is on the way up.<p>"Big Data" and "Machine Learning" on the way down.<p>Theres a reasonably sized part of the software industry/ecosystem that likes to be really vocal about 1 thing every 12-18 months.
Nearly every time I log onto HN someones created a new .js project/framework/solution/whatever for something. Its usually a variation of some .js project that already exists.
Completely subjective opinion from being avid HN user it would be Functional Programming, React Flavours, JS Frameworks with a sprinkle of ML.
I have to say however, that apart from the ongoing dilution of the JS ecosystem it would feel like a very good development to leaner, less entangled, data-driven architectures with respect to new mongo-core era.