Ask HN: What are the biggest fads in software engineering right now?

6 points by sun123 10 years ago | 8 comments

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 ?

dpeck 10 years ago |

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.

Nortey 10 years ago |

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.

gesman 10 years ago | |

Some who'll launch .js TLD will make a killing on all these suckers :)

halotrope 10 years ago |

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.

VOYD 10 years ago |

Everything in the software industry is a "fad". How else can we keep marketers employed? ;)

throwaway1410 10 years ago |

Dynamic languages on the backend?

liviu- 10 years ago | |

That's been more or less the de facto standard for more than a decade.

throwaway1410 10 years ago | | |

I think Java on the backend is still the de facto standard...