[gngoo]

Okay, but now what? Clearly, the industry is trending towards an entirely new style of doing programming. What are the longterm options going to be for those who don't enjoy this? Especially when there is a good chunk of people embracing it and adopting tools faster than any other tools for this proffesion have been adopted in the past. How will this end?

[eloisant]

Ask people who thought compilers were stupid, generating wrong code and decided they preferred to keep writing assembly code...

[8484481841]

For the great majority, the longterm option is going to be choosing another career.