I'm most looking forward to typing my program requirements into the STACK-OVERFLOW-PARSING-INTERPRETING-COMPILING-MACHINE, and it gobbling up all the nuggets of information together into a fully-formed program.
That's part of the future.
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Looking forward to the day I'll put my mind-reading headband and go for a ride while I program in thought.
Not sure why this was downvoted... I've wondered often what it would take to develop a programming language that one could create in while being physically mobile. I do some of my best programming/thinking while walking around since it's conducive to inspiration, but then I have to wait until I get home behind my keyboard to try and implement something.
Yup, I was serious in my idea. Maybe downvoters thought I was sarcastic.
I'd love to be able to experiment both the physical and digital world at the same time, discontinuing my hand/eyes as an interface with the computer.
I believe it will eventually happen. I'm not exactly sure of the current state of the art, but I've seen research replacing lost limbs with robotic arms that are solely controlled by thoughts. Seen also images induced into one's vision by stimulation of the brain.
Our brain evolved with I/O devices meant to match our physical environment. As far as I know[1], we don't have any I/O device meant to convey ideas in themselves. We need to serialize our thoughts into words, images and movements to get them deserialized into other's minds. All this process is lossy and has a limited bandwidth.
Anyway, I'm not talking about things I really know, so I won't elaborate further into this. I try to limit my opinions on HN to stuff that I actually know. You can't fool anyone around here; next thing I know, a brain researcher will come and break all my ideas apart in the comments.
[1]That's meant to exclude telepathy stuff
I also would like to see stuff like this. I hope it only evolves to stuff more like when I can see the whole algorithm (not in code, but in process I guess) in my head versus thinking "okay brain, for loop starting at x == 0, while x is less than this array's count."