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by hiAndrewQuinn 477 days ago
After getting past the fundamentals, of course, I think the runaway feedback loop of AI will continue to consolidate real world programming work into an even smaller pool of currently-popular languages. JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C, and C++ will all be in this cannot. Bash, too, if you count that - current AI tools are much much better at Bash than e.g. Fish, much to my dismay. So we'll see educational resources follow suit.

We will probably also see renewed interest in the "out of the box" options available on common platforms like Debian. By my count those would be awk, sed, and perl. [1] There's just something very satisfying about being able to spin up a bare server and get useful work done with just the essentials!

[1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/til-site/posts/what-programm...