The Future of Code

A presentation given by Peter Cooper at WXG 2014 on September 26. Sadly the slides don't really work on their own.. :-(

Transcript

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2. The Future of Code
   Programming in 2024 with @peterc
   

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3. Depending on your
   perspective, things
   don’t change.
   

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4. http://codeazur.com.br/stuff/fc64_final/
   

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5. 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
   !
   !
   !
   loop { print (9585.5+rand).to_i.chr }
   

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7. - phantomfive on Slashdot
   “Pretty near every
   programming idea that you
   use daily was invented by
   the 80s.”
   

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9. Bret Victor’s
   Future of Programming
   

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10. Bret Victor’s
    Future of Programming
    

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11. “Technology changes quickly, people’s
    minds don’t.”
    

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12. - Giorgio Moroder
    “If you free your mind about the
    concept of harmony and music being
    correct you can do what you want
    so none told me what to do and there
    was no preconception of what to do.”
    

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13. Bret Victor’s
    Future of Programming
    

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15. What does everyone
    else think?
    

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18. What I Think
    • The environment will change more than the code
    • Weird “formats” or representations of code
    • More end-users “programming”
    • “Software defined” everything
    • “Quantum” will become relevant (to more)
    • Intermediate data structures won’t matter
    • Crazy levels of optimization, AI-based profiling
    • CPU/GPU merger
    • More languages, more VMs
    • GIANT data and major data analysis
    

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19. LightTable
    

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20. Josh Marinacci’s
    Typographic Programming
    

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21. IFTTT
    

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22. Quipper
    • Quipper is a “scalable quantum language”
    • To calculate the 17th power of a quantum
    integer:
    

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23. What do YOU think?
    !
    YOU are the future of code.
    

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