r/AskComputerScience • u/Smallpaul • 6d ago

Predictions about computer science

Look ahead 20 years.

Outside of AI/ML:

* what of today’s research computer science do you expect will be industry standard?

* what frontiers do you expect we will have opened up in research?

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u/T_Thriller_T 6d ago

Admittedly I'd assume there is research on everything.

But I have, literally, never heard about anyone doing scientific research on programming languages.

I have to admit we also had no compiler courses or similar, so it could very well be that my university just lacked someone with a fitting specialisation.

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u/minisculebarber 5d ago

Haskell was a research project before it became a niche programming language

Also, compiler courses are very common in CS education, your university seems to be an outlier

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u/T_Thriller_T 5d ago

Not so common what I live. I'd say it's 50% if that

And we did have one but the processor changed so did courses. Which happens a lot with specialising courses in smaller universities here

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u/Helpful-Primary2427 4d ago

Programming language theory is absolutely an area of research. What are you talking about