Ask HN: What are your predictions, about your field, for 2020?

Field/Industry: Software -

- no code hype to continue

- software companies labelling themselves as - “superhuman for X” (whatever that means)

- more open source products (not just libs or frameworks, but full fledged products)

- more companies opting for in-house development

- fight for privacy is going to continue, but it’s all going to be in vain

- decentralised internet, software would continue to be a toy

- in programming language, no new breakthroughs. Python, JS, Golang would continue their upward trend.

- Remote teams trend to continue

- SaaS offerings would grow more vertical (see “superh... X”)

- I don’t think SaaS consolidation is going to happen (have read a lot of predictions about this)

Opinion- Experienced developers, that side project you always wanted to start, now would be a great time to do that , or switch to engineering management.

Overall it’s going to be a great time for the MBAs and not so exciting time for the techies (a suggestion to techies - go watch uncle bob’s - future of programming and let’s start bringing some fundamental changes to our profession).