Ask HN: How did high level programming languages take over?

2 points by hanifbbz 1 year ago | 1 comment
There's been a lot of opinions about how AI will impact software development. So far, we've seen impressive demos but the majority of devs don't use AI as a main part of their development flow. Regardless, I think we can draw some lessons from the part where a more productive development flow fundamentally changed the profession.

So this is a question to those of you who worked with low level languages and how did you experience the advent of high level ones? Let's not get into the nitty gritty definitions and focus on the pace of disruption and impact of the change on the industry.

  • SavageBeast 1 year ago
    Low level languages were so much more hassle than we have to deal with today. Try coding something trivial in assembly or some business logic in C and you will quickly see what I mean. Higher level languages became popular as they offered quite a bit more bang for the buck in terms of dev effort and what could be accomplished with relative ease. Thats how I remember it. I think AI will end up doing the same thing with high level languages.