“Developers will be at the centre of solving the world’s most pressing challenges.”
“Developers will be at the centre of solving the world’s most pressing challenges.”
I used this quote from Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, in my presentation at the Digital Frontrunners event. A similar thought was expressed by a number of other participants. The logic is obvious. In a digital age, there are more and more devices containing more and more code. They have to in order to offer the convenient and connected user experience that consumers now expect and demand. And this reliance on code puts developers at the centre of everything.
A modern high-end car, for instance, currently features around 100 million lines of code. And this number is expected to double or treble in the near future, as the push towards greater vehicle autonomy continues. Our experience of driving is increasingly structured by the possibilities the code gives us.
More generally, we are moving towards…
