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Windows & .NET Watch: Five predictions for the next decade


By Larry O'Brien
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January 15, 2010 —  (Page 1 of 2)
Manycore Tsunami: You cannot develop software for manycore using today’s mainstream concurrency models. I know I sound like a broken record on this, but too many people have stuck their heads in the sand and are willfully ignoring an enormous problem. Writing manycore programs is going to be the hardest technical challenge in your career: harder than understanding object-oriented or functional programming, harder than browser incompatibilities, harder than tracking down memory leaks in a C program.

Declarative Tier-Splitting: From the mind that brought you LINQ comes declarative tier-splitting, in which you write all your code for a Web application in a single location and use attributes to let the compiler know “this needs to run in the browser, that needs to run on the server.” Erik Meijer’s Volta, Microsoft’s first foray into declarative tier-splitting, has gone dark, but the concept is being kicked around by some open-source developers, and I strongly suspect that Volta is being reworked and evolved rather than being abandoned.

You can never make the network invisible, but we have to move beyond the current nonsense in which one language and library must be mastered to manipulate and validate the view, and another language and library must be used on the server-side, often re-implementing the exact same validation work (since, of course, one can never trust client-side input). Even if JavaScript becomes a major server-side language, declarative tier-splitting would allow for better duplication, cleaner code and easier development.

JavaScript Becomes C: JavaScript will become more than an order of magnitude faster, will drive many applications, and will even gain strength as a viable server-side language. That’s the easy prediction; JavaScript performance is a major battleground in the re-emerged browser wars.

While JavaScript is not a language that inspires rapturous love, it’s serviceable enough. It lacks a concurrency model, but at least it doesn’t have a broken one. And its variable scoping rules are not to my taste, but the new “strict mode” of the recently published ECMAScript 5 spec will help.


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