> software is developing so fast and the abstractions getting better
Software won't eat software because this isn't true, yet.
IMO, the last 10 years have been an explosion of new frameworks and patterns that are overly-complicated and bloated. Because of this, there isn't an easy cohesion between off-the-shelf solutions.
Think of how eye-opening UNIX was when it first came on the seen and the ability to pipe together commands to solve new problems. It was eye-opening. But, think of how hard that would have been if each tool read ASCII different, or piped text differently. Imagine if grep and awk where combined into one tool with a complicated set of switches.
I think eventually, working with off-the-shelf software to build solutions to tough problems will be as easy as gluing together 3-5 UNIX commands in a bash script to process some text files. But we aren't there yet.
Software won't eat software because this isn't true, yet.
IMO, the last 10 years have been an explosion of new frameworks and patterns that are overly-complicated and bloated. Because of this, there isn't an easy cohesion between off-the-shelf solutions.
Think of how eye-opening UNIX was when it first came on the seen and the ability to pipe together commands to solve new problems. It was eye-opening. But, think of how hard that would have been if each tool read ASCII different, or piped text differently. Imagine if grep and awk where combined into one tool with a complicated set of switches.
I think eventually, working with off-the-shelf software to build solutions to tough problems will be as easy as gluing together 3-5 UNIX commands in a bash script to process some text files. But we aren't there yet.