Let’s face it. Coding as we know it is dying and we need to bid it farewell. This will be comical and akin to those who would have lamented death of punched cards and assembly level programming – basically historical artifacts and old people hugging it. But for a generation that grew up with it, this is an emotional good bye moment.
Not sure about others but for me it was love at first sight with computers – gleaming green monochromatic monitors at school – I was stunned by what they could do, even more so when I figured out that I could “program” them to do something I created. It was fantasy land from there on – and for me it started with the BASIC programming language. I picked up programing with such frenzy that I could code games within a month, went to fractals, animations etc and could not have enought of it 🙂 . I probably knew what I wanted to spend my life on knowing and learning, even before I entered 8th grade – such was the clarity of my passion. The countless nights spent on ‘debugging’ an issue with friends, coding a mini project – the list is endless – these will never be forgotten. Though the languages kept changing to FORTRAN, Pascal, C, C++, Java, PHP and all the way till Kotlin, the joy of coding legibly, structuring it out, even small stuff like identifying cool names for variables, adding neat comments and the like kept the love going – that is until AI came in to the picture.
So RIP coding and hi to fellow OG coders out there who lived through this – what a time we had, what a wonderful story we got to tell and what a different world it was when we used to code by hand. Of course, we will motor on, coding AI for as long as that is possible but we also know the answer to how this is going to end 🙂