alt Hacker News> Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over.
I'm pretty sure the way I was doing things in 2005 was completely different compared to 2015. Same for 2015 and 2025. I'm not old enough to know how they were doing things in 1995, but I'm pretty sure there very different compared to 2005.
For sure, we are going through some big changes, but there is no "as it has been done for decades".
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1995 vs 2005 was definitely a larger change than subsequent decades; in 1995 most information was gathered through dead trees or reverse engineering.
Yeah, I remember being amazed at the immediate incremental compilation on save in Visual Age for Java many years ago. Today's neovim users have features that even the most advanced IDEs didn't have back then.
I think a lot of people in the industry forget just how much change has come from 30 years of incremental progress.
I don't think things have changed that much in the time I've been doing it (roughly 20 years). Tools have evolved and new things were added but the core workflow of a developer has more or less stayed the same.