Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?
For one, I could think of Big Data/ Hadoop. In the past one year, at least ten "coaching institutes" have sprang up in the area I live (in Bangalore) claiming to teach Hadoop and promising high paying jobs.
I went in there for a "demo session", and they are like "you can learn Hadoop and get a high paying job with absolutely no programming experience".
Anyway, these places always get some kind of gullible people.
I think this is a fad, and it will die down soon. What do you think about this ? Do you think there are any other fads like this ?
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React is on the way up.
"Big Data" and "Machine Learning" on the way down.
Theres a reasonably sized part of the software industry/ecosystem that likes to be really vocal about 1 thing every 12-18 months.
Nearly every time I log onto HN someones created a new .js project/framework/solution/whatever for something. Its usually a variation of some .js project that already exists.
Some who'll launch .js TLD will make a killing on all these suckers :)
Completely subjective opinion from being avid HN user it would be Functional Programming, React Flavours, JS Frameworks with a sprinkle of ML. I have to say however, that apart from the ongoing dilution of the JS ecosystem it would feel like a very good development to leaner, less entangled, data-driven architectures with respect to new mongo-core era.
Everything in the software industry is a "fad". How else can we keep marketers employed? ;)
Dynamic languages on the backend?
That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.
I think Java on the backend is still the de facto standard...