Containerization and cloud services are applications of CS, not CS. They are to CS today what typesetters were to CS of the 1970s - pretty boring to consumers, but behind the scenes created an economy where things like Unix weren't just toys or research but projects backed by capital investment.
If you take a step back and look at the technological developments that the products you use every day are built upon, there is a lot of exciting things going on.
Just off the top of my head, immutable data structures and functional paradigms are becoming increasingly useful to real products, and performant implementation of them is an exciting area of development.
There's also a lot of exciting development in programming languages themselves, and with the (hopeful) propagation of things like the Language Server Protocol developing and using new languages is getting easier, distributing them is easier, and people are more receptive to using them. There's a new language craze going on right now and it's fun to be a part of.
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Containerization and cloud services are applications of CS, not CS. They are to CS today what typesetters were to CS of the 1970s - pretty boring to consumers, but behind the scenes created an economy where things like Unix weren't just toys or research but projects backed by capital investment.
If you take a step back and look at the technological developments that the products you use every day are built upon, there is a lot of exciting things going on.
Just off the top of my head, immutable data structures and functional paradigms are becoming increasingly useful to real products, and performant implementation of them is an exciting area of development.
There's also a lot of exciting development in programming languages themselves, and with the (hopeful) propagation of things like the Language Server Protocol developing and using new languages is getting easier, distributing them is easier, and people are more receptive to using them. There's a new language craze going on right now and it's fun to be a part of.