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The Future of Programming

Something has been brewing in my mind for years about which I have unpublished blog posts, loosely linked ideas and frustrations in my daily life as a software developer. I love software and I enjoy my job tremendously, but at the same time I believe that software creation is horribly inefficient and unnecessarily complex . I've noticed that my thoughts are slowly becoming more consistent and I believe I can see where our industry is headed. Of course I can't predict how the future is going to play out, but A) I can dream about how software should be created and B) I can also see what it would take to get there. I'm going to write publicly about what I think could (or should) be  The Future of Programming  in a series of blog posts. This year is a good time to start thinking about this. We're at an interesting stage where we have thousands of languages, eco-systems, Brewing means taking materials, letting them ferment for some time and getting a very different pro