What Ryan Dahl’s declaration means for the rest of us who still type for a living
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At 5am this morning (down under, that is), Ryan Dahl posted a tweet that’s already racked up hundreds of thousands of views:
“This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That’s not to say SWEs don’t have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.”
If this came from some random tech influencer, you could dismiss it. Scroll past.
But Ryan Dahl isn’t some random tech influencer. He’s the person who created Node.js.
The guy who received a standing ovation at JSConf EU in 2009 when he first demonstrated that JavaScript could run on the server. Nine years later, he gave another talk at the same conference titled “10 Things I Regret About Node.js” and then built an entirely new runtime called Deno to fix those mistakes.