The Evolution of Developer Salaries: Looking Back 20 Years
Quote: &quot;In the years to come, industry experts expect low-level coding and programming jobs to become obsolete with the development of new tools that remove the need to code completely. Take for example the role of Web Developers when it comes to building websites. With popular CMS tools like WordPress and Squarespace, almost anyone can build a website for their business, reducing the need for people who know “just a little bit of front end web development”. &quot;<p>Yeah, not gonna happen. Low level code, if anything, is going to become even more popular with the current explosion of IoT. You have this 4th generation becoming in full swing (1st was mainframes in 50&#x27;s&#x2F;60&#x27;s, 2nd was PC in 70&#x27;s&#x2F;80&#x27;, 3rd was web&#x2F;mobile in 90&#x27;s to 10&#x27;s, and now Arduino&#x2F;Raspberry&#x2F;MicroBIT for IoT) and I swear is the same stuff under new hood. Plenty of people want fully integrated stuff and blings around them, which means in next decade IoT is going to be what smartphones started from 2008 to 2015.<p>Second - Sure mom and pop can do basic stuff in Wordpress, but once they want something unique guess what? PHP developer to the rescue to adjust their Wordpress site. So no, if anything, it&#x27;s going the opposite direction, more code, more software. So the &lt;need for people who know “just a little bit of front end web development”&gt; is going to be shifted to mom and pop and that&#x27;s all...at best.