A pillar, as doctors, judges, teachers, ...
I think developers has lot of power (see BTC and ETH) to disturb and to rearrange our society and, therefore, to influence some world disasters (wars, hungry, ect.).
Wath do you think about this ?
NO.
Whilst many of us are attempting to fight the good fight for some three decades (I've been writing software since I was 7, working professionally since my mid teens when most of you were still in diapers), I've come to the inexorable conclusion that the majority of software developers -- PARTICULARLY of the past decade -- are nothing more than sleazy fly-by-night turds who cannot be bothered to put effort into their work, learn a damned thing past how to slop off the shelf answers together, or do anything more than flat out lie to every single client you come across.
To me one of the requirements to be a "pillar of the community" is a mix of honesty and fairness. Those qualities are exceedingly rare amongst the sleazy dirtbags making up endless excuses for why like mouth-breathing halfwits they use "everybody's code but my own" whilst flipping the double bird at users with mind-numbingly ignorant GARBAGE like bootcrap, jQuery, angular, react, etc, etc.
That said, if we can end up with a orange cheeto fingered commander in half-tweet, the bar for being a 'pillar' has been dropped an all time low. By today's standards Soapy Smith, Charles Ponzi, and Geraldine Carmichael would probably qualify as "pillars of the community".
But let me tell you what I REALLY think... and get off my lawn.
I think yes, softwares became important thing in our life. maybe will kill someone or changes lives for someone.
Jason Knight
The less code you use, the less there is to break
K
Ha!
I don't think that's the right question. I think coding becomes more and more of a table skill. In the future, doctors, judges, teachers etc. will know how to code and how to automate some of the tasks they face.
Much like reading and writing shifted from being skills of the elite to something you just absolutely have to know to be anywhere near successful.