THE VIDEO SHELF · history and future of programming
Bret Victor The Future of Programming
Bret Victor's DBX 2013 talk, delivered in the guise of a 1973 IBM engineer with an overhead projector. It surveys forgotten ideas from 1960s and early 70s computing and warns against assuming you know what you're doing.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats it as a classic, near-mandatory talk on how programming tools and paradigms stagnated and which older ideas deserve revival.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Joey Reid
- Topic
- history and future of programming
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 12
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Bret Victor is amazing. I saw his video about the future of programming[0] and have been following him since then. [0] [VIDEO]
itsyogesh on Hacker News · 2017-01
In Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?'The future of Programming' by Bret Victor ( [VIDEO] ). Seems a pun about OP title but it really is related with his/her question. Take a look and you will be amazed of how good (or revolutionary by our standards) some old technologies were.
diegojromero on Hacker News · 2018-08
In Ask HN: What is the future of programming?Lots of cynic-cynics in here :) I'll stand up for the author. The lists in the article are not great, but I still agree with the sentiment. I recommend everyone watch Bret Victor's classic "The Future of Programming" [VIDEO] Yes, we've had a trillion dollars …
corysama on Hacker News · 2021-01
In The Great Software Stagnation
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.