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The World's Eight Most Excellent Software Adventures, Part Three

Client Side Parallel Programming Models
By Joel Pobar
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December 7, 2007 05:15 AM EST
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My Guess?

It's too close to call. There's a bunch of moving parts here: web enabled push to computing in the cloud; reduced need for Win32; consolidation of various platforms (Win32 POSIX etc) in to the browser + Javascript; mobile computing (more need for increased battery life) and more. If we ignore all those issues for a minute, and concentrate on what the programming might be looking at in the coming years for client side programming, I think that the library story + some amount of language integration is probably a safe bet.

The driver won't be technology, it'll be the market. If the market decides it's worth shelling out for 80 core Intel procs, then we'll have no choice but to push our apps in to a parallel world. If we end up in a web enabled world, then it's likely we'll care more about technologies that enable wider distribution of computation: making sure our server farms stay cool, and that browser based clients can help out with the computational load.

Brilliantly interesting. And that's why it's in my top 8 most excellent software adventures.

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Joel Pobar speaks, consults, and teaches .NET technologies: CLR; programming languages; threading; platforms and more. A former Microsoft Program Manager, since leaving Microsoft he has been tinkering with v.next software: machine learning, natural language processing, programming languages and more.

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