{"id":116961,"date":"2019-03-27T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/?guid=12d63111d72e5f001f6a18550729ec88"},"modified":"2019-03-27T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:02:00","slug":"programming-languages-are-now-driven-by-corporations-should-we-be-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/27\/programming-languages-are-now-driven-by-corporations-should-we-be-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming languages are now driven by corporations: Should we be worried?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a time when a starving PhD student could improvise a new programming language and within a few years the entire world was using it. That time is gone. Today, as evidenced by the rising popularity of languages like Kotlin and Go, seemingly the only way a new programming language hits the big time is with the generous backing of a megacorp.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether this is an inherently bad thing.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"fakesidebar\"><strong>[ Watch out! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3270728\/8-career-pitfalls-every-developer-should-avoid.html\">8 career pitfalls every developer should avoid<\/a>. \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3269032\/7-books-you-must-read-to-be-a-real-software-developer.html\">7 books you must read to be a real software developer<\/a>. \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3219166\/15-noob-mistakes-even-experienced-developers-still-make.html\">15 noob mistakes even experienced developers still make<\/a>. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\">App Dev Report newsletter<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/aside>\n<h2>The 1990s: the era of the freewheeling hacker<\/h2>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t always thus. As Hacker One CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martenmickos\/status\/1110075281807540224\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marten Mickos related<\/a>, \u201cThe end of the 1990s was an unusual period with an exceptional number of grassroots and small projects that then became huge.\u201d Not only programming languages, but all sorts of technology upstarts like MySQL and Linux also boomed during this fecund period.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ismangil\/status\/1110079582080811010\" rel=\"nofollow\">Perry Ismangil concurred<\/a>, saying, \u201cIt was the beginning of the internet plus web reaching the masses.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ismangil\/status\/1110083303510552577\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ismangil goes on<\/a>, arguing, \u201cPeople were scrambling to build web apps that [were] not CGI running C, for example\u2014PHP and JavaScript.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javaworld.com\/article\/3384539\/programming-languages-are-now-driven-by-corporations-should-we-be-worried.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p>(Insider Story)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There once was a time when a starving PhD student could improvise a new programming language and within a few years the entire world was using it. That time is gone. Today, as evidenced by the rising popularity of languages like Kotlin and Go, seemingly the only way a new programming language hits the big time is with the generous backing of a megacorp.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether this is an inherently bad thing.<\/p>\n<aside><strong>[ Watch out! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3270728\/8-career-pitfalls-every-developer-should-avoid.html\">8 career pitfalls every developer should avoid<\/a>. &bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3269032\/7-books-you-must-read-to-be-a-real-software-developer.html\">7 books you must read to be a real software developer<\/a>. &bull; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/3219166\/15-noob-mistakes-even-experienced-developers-still-make.html\">15 noob mistakes even experienced developers still make<\/a>. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/newsletters\/signup.html\">App Dev Report newsletter<\/a>. ]<\/strong><\/aside>\n<h2>The 1990s: the era of the freewheeling hacker<\/h2>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t always thus. As Hacker One CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martenmickos\/status\/1110075281807540224\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marten Mickos related<\/a>, &ldquo;The end of the 1990s was an unusual period with an exceptional number of grassroots and small projects that then became huge.&rdquo; Not only programming languages, but all sorts of technology upstarts like MySQL and Linux also boomed during this fecund period.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ismangil\/status\/1110079582080811010\" rel=\"nofollow\">Perry Ismangil concurred<\/a>, saying, &ldquo;It was the beginning of the internet plus web reaching the masses.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ismangil\/status\/1110083303510552577\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ismangil goes on<\/a>, arguing, &ldquo;People were scrambling to build web apps that [were] not CGI running C, for example&mdash;PHP and JavaScript.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.javaworld.com\/article\/3384539\/programming-languages-are-now-driven-by-corporations-should-we-be-worried.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Insider Story) <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/27\/programming-languages-are-now-driven-by-corporations-should-we-be-worried\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[451,2,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,318,558,560,555,561,566,553,554,586,585,563,562,183,567,524,10,401,396,403,412,411,395,405,404,457,454,319,316],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-uqt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116962,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116961\/revisions\/116962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}