Like much of our society, programming is driven by trends. As new technologies create better precision, efficiency and ease of use, older technologies fall by the wayside. InfoWorld has put together a list of fifteen development trends that they say are currently “hot” and fifteen that are on their way out:
Hot
- Preprocessors
- JavaScript MV* frameworks
- CSS frameworks
- SVG + JavaScript on Canvas
- Almost big data (analysis without Hadoop)
- Game frameworks
- Single-page Web apps
- Mobile Web apps
- Android
- GPU
- GitHub
- Renting
- Web interfaces
- Node.js
- Hackerspaces
Not-So-Hot
- Full language stacks
- JavaScript files
- Generic Cascading Style Sheets
- Flash
- Big data (with Hadoop)
- Native game development
- Websites
- Native mobile apps
- iOS
- CPU
- Résumés
- Buying
- IDEs
- JavaEE, Ruby on Rails, PHP
- College