https://thenewstack.io/ai-programming-languages-future/

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Will AI force code to evolve or make it extinct?

Will AI spawn new programming languages, or will typed languages like Rust and TypeScript win? Experts explore AI's growing impact on how developers write code.

The New Stack (thenewstack.io)

I don't know who this "senior developer advocate" ho over at GitHub is in real life. I am taking issue with what they're saying here:

“And I think that says a lot,” Griffiths says. “The gravitational pull of existing ecosystems is enormous — libraries, tooling, community knowledge, production infrastructure. A new language doesn’t just need to be better for AI. It needs to justify abandoning everything developers already have, and that shift is not [going to] happen overnight.”

This is another MicroCrap person and serious Wintel user (Windows + Intel) who is using their lofty position at Github (which is for all intents and purposes a real monopoly in the software repository world) to tell the rest of us older developers — who were and are still today responsible for a majority of the upkeep with supporting the continued maintenance of good software (the Open Source kind of software) — that we don't mean anything. That's a bullshit take, Andrea.

Re-read what they wrote. "[N]eeds to justify abandoning everything developers already have..."

Fuck no, Andrea. And fuck *you* and GitHub for thinking that the rest of us outside of your corporate fiefdom do not matter one iota since in your worldview where perfunctory globalisms dictate the terms of your existence that all human software engineers will be replaced by AI with its data fully backed up by Microsoft's Azure services, no doubt.

The change in software in general and the slow encroachment of AI is a two-fold problem with solutions and problems which can create additional problems.

On the one hand, we have idiots and corporate-funded naysayers such as Andrea Griffiths at GitHub, which is still to this day owned and operated by Bill Gates' brainchild: Microsoft. They blithely tell us that we will not ever amount to anything as real software creators because some great magical force will come down from the sky and do all of the developers' jobs for us.

That's how Elon Musk thinks. He wants to use Starlink to wipe every broadband company off the map in North America and use Starlink to provide satellite-based internet service across all 50 states.

That is how crazy the richest man in the world is. That's neither feasible nor realistic. Goes to show that people who have shit tons of money are not necessarily the best tools to use from your toolbox.

Some of us developers are really tired of these cultural wars. It's not just the really sour and malignant politics in North America today.

It's crap such as what Andrea Griffiths at GitHub is promulgating by using their position to "pull a fast one" or hoodwink the rest of us into submission.

Our first mission is our clients. Or call them our customers or user base. Or it would simply be answering to our bosses — whose careerist job is to plainly answer in a reasonable and effective way customers' questions and inputs through support and marketing channels and avenues.

Microsoft lost their way a long time ago. They missed the smartphone revolution and tried to blame Apple. That fell flat on its face.

Now people such as Andrea Griffiths feel that they're still relevant in the #OpenSource world. Meh. Not so much to people such as me. Microsoft has a long, storied history of initially accepting, then outright refusing, then bringing back Open Source components into their software libraries much too late in the game and without enough proper focus and ongoing support for more open libraries and toolchains.