Ask HN: Where are the best places online to read about software trends? I'm interested in doing some research on the long-term outlook of a few programming languages and technologies, and am wondering if there is a de-facto place, or a few places, to go for this information. I know the Stack Overflow developer survey can be pretty good to understand what's happening now, but I'm more curious about long term projections. Is this information available anywhere? |
The SO developer survey and others [0] [1] [2] have been around long enough to notice trends, but projection - whether in economics, sports, or the weather - is of course about much more than trends.
Personally I would seek out the advice of as many trusted greybeards as I had access to; experience counts more than math and statistics. Also, if your research is for the purpose of guiding current decisions (you didn't say this explicitly but I picked up an implicit need) be aware of black swan events [3].
[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/
[1] https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...
[2] https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/top-programming-languages