Programming peaked

The way the author described programming in 2025 did make me chuckle, and I do think he makes some excellent points in the process.

It’s 2025. We write JavaScript with types now. It runs not just in a browser, but on Linux. It has a dependency manager, and in true JavaScript style, there’s a central repository which anyone can push anything to. Nowadays it’s mostly used to inject Bitcoin miners or ransomware onto unsuspecting servers, but you might find a useful utility to pad a string if you need it.

In order to test our application, we build it regularly. On a modern computer, with approximately 16 cores, each running at 3 GHz, TypeScript only takes a few seconds to compile and run.

Hmm, partially. One real thing that I see now is cloud costs. All of the stuff we now have in our pipeline does inflate our costs quite a bit, which then puts pressure on the budget and that crunches everywhere.

What's funny is if you added another "level" to this going back another 15 years there would be someone complaining about the same things but with Java as the target. "Java is slow" wasn't just a joke for no reason after all.

There are some funny parts in the post as well as some true statements to the current state of things. We'll see another post like it in 10-15 years and it will be a chuckle. Then we'll all continue as we always have and deal with whatever comes down the pipe next.

It's what humans do and it isn't restricted to technologies or programming languages.