The Future of Developer Tools for IoT

How will developer tools evolve and scale for building the IoT? This talk looks at emerging and future trends in the developer tools space.

Slides from ThingMonk talk delivered on 13th September 2017.

Transcript

1. The Future of
   Developer Tools for IoT
   Tracy Miranda
   Kichwa Coders
   @tracymiranda
   

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2. Developer Tools
   Build
   software
   stuff
   Quickly,
   Scale well
   Troubleshoot
   

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3. What Language for IoT ?
   

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4. What Language for IoT ?
   https://www.slideshare.net/IanSkerrett/iot-developer-survey-2017
   

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5. C Assembler
   Verilog
   C#
   

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6. Eclipse IDE
   @eclipsejavaide
   

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9. To IDE or not to IDE?
   

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10. VS Code
    

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11. The IDE Spectrum
    Smart
    Editors IDE
    

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12. VISUAL (HIGHER LEVEL)
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    CLOUD
    

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13. VISUAL (HIGHER LEVEL)
    

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14. We need a higher level of
    abstraction for digital twin.
    

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15. All IoT tools need more
    visuals and less text
    

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16. Node-Red?
    

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17. Visual Tools Should Be:
    • Able to support hierarchy of
    abstraction layers
    • Allow users to work at optimal layer
    (e.g. drill down)
    • Transition to text layer
    • Scriptable
    • Debuggable
    

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18. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    

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20. Intelligent Completions: Code
    Recommenders
    

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21. AI-Powered Bug Detection
    

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22. Software Mining
    Open source code
    mining
    Configuration mining
    Natural language
    sources
    

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23. Who wants AI powered
    tools?
    

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24. We have the technology
    We have the data
    We need the integration & design
    

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25. “Design is not just what it looks like
    and feels like. Design is how it
    works” –Steve Jobs
    

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26. CLOUD
    

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27. DevOps In The Cloud
    Source Control
    github, bitbucket, etc
    Builds & CI
    jenkins, hudson, travis, circleci etc
    Other
    jira, bugzilla, gerrit etc
    

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28. Cloud Workspaces
    

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29. Cloud Workspaces
    

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30. Language Server Protocol
    LSP
    https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations
    

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31. Language Server Protocol
    LSP
    https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations
    Code
    Completion
    Hovers
    Jump to
    definition
    Find
    References
    Diagnostics
    

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32. Language Server Protocol:
    Developer communities and tools are
    restructuring to work together and be
    more effective.
    

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33. Language Server Protocol:
    Desktop editors will keep up better
    with changes in languages.
    

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34. Language Server Protocol:
    Cloud editors are set to significantly
    improve their functionality.
    

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35. Github?
    

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36. Github
    http://blog.atom.io/2017/09/12/announcing-atom-ide.html
    

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37. Language Server Protocol:
    Let the fragmentation continue…
    

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38. Every developer deserves their very own
    domain specific language…
    www.eclipse.org/xtext
    

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39. Debug Protocol
    gdb
    GDB mi
    Protocol
    

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40. The future is distributed:
    Monoliths to microservices.
    IDEs to micro-ides
    

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41. Lots of new possibilities…
    https://www.producthunt.com/posts/interviews-on-skype
    

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42. VISUAL (HIGHER LEVEL)
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    CLOUD
    

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43. Gen Z Codes in the Cloud by Default
    

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44. Shape The Future
    Design, design, design
    Integrate all the things
    Think extensible
    Default to open source
    

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