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Coders: The rise of the software developer
On this episode of Coders, Jeff Mucci and Victor Agreda discuss how the proliferation of smartphones prompted the rise of software developers, both as professionals and hobbyists.
Agreda, executive producer of Super Pixel Studios and editor-in-chief of The Unauthorized Apple Website, explains how smartphones have blown open the software development trade for both professionals and hobbyists.
“People are carrying around computers in their pocket,” Agreda told Mucci, the CEO and Editorial Director of RCR Wireless News.
“We really are at personal computing now and I think that’s the biggest thing. Mobile devices are not just a phone. Now that you have that, the proliferation of that, the explosive growth of mobile phone and smartphones, tablets to a lesser degree, that has been a huge boon and it has just been a driver of all these other things, of the technology and the programming.”
Also included is commentary from Jason Hoffman, head of cloud technology for Ericsson, who discusses varying programming langues during an interview at Mobile World Congress 2015.
Hoffman called the rise of the developer a “global phenomenon. A lot of the legacy applications are being rewritten.”
He also digs into open-source code that’s suited for telecommunications applications.
“What we’ve been trying to do, particularly on that platform as a service, or even just this requirement that cloud systems are supposed to be highly programmable, accessible systems. A lot of the product drive inside of that is on making your life easier.”