[rjempson]

I wonder what he is talking about. I recently created a script that can build our whole cloud based test environment from scratch. It creates the servers, downloads and installs the platforms, builds and deploys our software.

Maybe he is talking about end-user software that can be scripted? But even that isn't true for devs.

[joshmarinacci]

I think he's talking about how scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows, and practically impossible on phones, which is where the bulk of computing will be done in the future.

[codingdave]

Be careful there - the bulk of computing is always in the background - the consumption of the results of that computing may move towards phones.

Take banking as an example, pulling up your bank balance, or making an online payment, is nowhere near the computing power of actually balancing the transactions at all banks across the world each night. You get a tiny sliver of a tiny report of the computing that happens in the background.

Entertainment, personal tools, communication - those are moving mobile. But that is just the surface.

[inopinatus]

History lesson: It never was possible on 3270 smart terminals, either.

We've had a shift back to centralized data storage and processing.

There were a few decades - the 1980s & 1990s & 2000s - where the canonical master of a data set might have been local to the user, but cloud computing has moved data back to DCs for centralized storage & processing. And we are using very smart terminals.

[jackmaney]

> scripting is less and less possible on Mac/Windows

[citation needed]

[antod]

I got the feeling they were mourning the GUI environment macro type scripting not the bash/python type console scripting.

ie ARexx and that stuff MacOS does or used to do with traditional desktop apps.