With rapid digitalization and Industry 4.0, comes dramatic changes and innovations in Software Development in the next decade. Companies will begin to rely on software developers who have the required skills needed to set their companies apart from others by creating and delivering softwares that will improve their operations as well as customer experience.
TRENDS IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT.
These are the developments occurring in the software development industry as a result of the technological evolutions, from AI, Cloud computing, Extended Realities and many others.
DID YOU KNOW?
--- Over the past few years, AI has been developing at a pace that few expected, but in coming years, there is a good chance that the work of today's software developers will be handled by next-generation AI platforms.
Bayou an AI system, already helps developers by providing an autocomplete function to aid coding. As well as Creation. Code reviews and debugging might soon be long gone as a Swiss company, DeepCode is working on a tool for automatic bug identification.
--- As a result of the increase in data created each day, about 463 billion GB of new data, for software developers this means every project may sooner or later involve data analytics. It's already been used in hospital management platforms, airline route planners etc.
--- With the advances of AI and Machine Learning, the traditional way of ensuring code quality will become automated. Check out CodeSignal.
--- Machine Inferred Code Similarity System(MISIM) claims to be able to understand computer code just like how Alexa or Siri understands human language. As a result, there may be less static websites and more motion UI, see OptinMonster. Other interesting companies to check out; InfoTracer, CenterCode, FigureEight etc.
Predictions in Software Development.
--- By the 2030s, Cloud Native Programming Languages will be mainstream as well as other programming languages for Quantum Computing. Another prediction is that WebAssembly will be the de facto Bytecode format to run on web or smart devices.
--- In the next ten years, cloud computing will become the new "normal" for software development and the issues currently being faced as a result of cloud computing will be resolved.
--- By the next decade, there will be significant innovations in AI and even as developers, AI-driven operating systems with AI-driven applications will be used by software developers.
Conclusion
With these trends and predictions, there are some concepts that can never be erased like; Fundamentals, Data Structures and Algorithms, Clean Code, Internet Protocols and the rest.
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