Future of Writing Software
In the age of 'every company is software company' how would software development will evolve in future
Pandemic has accelerated the digital adoption across every sector of business whether you are a small neighbourhood Kirana shop or a behemoth. Every aspect of business has realised the importance of digital technology.
Writing software is highest paying job right now and It will continue to remain so future because computing is everywhere and where there is computing, there is always need for people who are responsible for ensuring and managing the computing platforms and creating innovative ways to render value from it.
Software engineering was very niche area before which has gone mainstream now. If comprise any kind of list of important people there would always be people aligned with computing technology whether It is list of most powerful or richest people on the planet.
if we look in past, not everyone had access to computers and they were developing the software solution in isolation unaware of each others progress. All the developers had to build their own infrastructures to run their code. They had to have knowledge of every aspect of computer architecture. but rise of community like Stackoverflow has given every developer an easier access to solution so that they don’t have reinvent the wheel. Internet communities has provides developers means to seek the solutions to problems they are facing and sharing the knowledge among community.
The rise of cloud computing and rise PaaS, IaaS model has enabled software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about every little technical aspect in running these technology. It has also made the model very modular which has led to rise of startup in this field where with a very small team of engineers you can manage your company.
The ultimate goal is reach a point in future where you don’t need a expert programmer to develop the software. This is future that I think we will reach which can be witnessed by no-code websites and app development frameworks. Software development should take a background to value it is providing and every person It should be easier and simple enough where anyone can understand and modify it.
We are moving in right direction in software development process where all the technology are becoming easier to integrate with each other. We are moving in direction where any person with reasonably skills can put together available technical solutions to solve his own problem. Expertise in writing software will not become a hindrance It will be as simple following a recipe. We will still have expert software developers who will provide the tools but the need for every business to have dedicated software team will not be there as Common people will come as aware and skilful in solving the technical problems.
I am a big proponent in teaching software development and computer skills from early education to all the students because not only it will increase their computer knowledge but also it will also give them whole new perspective in problem solving skills.
Being a software engineer myself, I have realised how my approach towards problems solving have changed after learning coding and It has helped me every aspect of my life.