In the 5G era, will programmers lose their jobs or continue to be popular?

Recently everyone has been discussing such a thing. Now there are more and more programmers, and hundreds of thousands or even millions of people are pouring into this industry every year. Some people can't help but feel anxious. With the advent of the 5G era, will programmers lose their jobs? The answer is obvious. No, and 5G will also give rise to a greater demand for programmers, requiring more people to invest in program development and design.

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If we look at it from a historical perspective, more than a decade ago, in the PC era, everyone felt that with so many people working in the computer industry every year, the world's codes seemed to have been almost written. We could use online banking on computers, read news on major portals, chat on QQ on computers, and shop on Taobao. Obviously, everyone felt that this was the development of the Internet.

In the 3G4G era that followed, the mobile Internet developed rapidly, and we gave birth to many new apps. Suddenly, more people used the Internet, and there were more demands. In the past, programmers generally had web development, PC client development, and backend development. In the mobile Internet era, iOS, Android and other app development engineers were born, and correspondingly, H5 and small program development was also needed. Suddenly, the programmer market became very short of people, and more and more job opportunities were born, and programmers' salaries also rose.

In the era of mobile Internet, there are less than 3 billion devices connected to the Internet worldwide. However, in the 5G era, it will inevitably be an era of the Internet of Everything. At that time, in addition to mobile phones, cars, smart homes, and smart wearable devices, such as smart watches, will be connected to the Internet. At that time, it is conservatively estimated that there will be 50 billion devices connected to the Internet worldwide. Imagine that at that time, a large number of programmers will still be needed to develop various programs.

Many people would say that now is the cloud era, with all kinds of open source software, do we still need so many programmers? Of course we do. Ten years ago, it was very difficult for us to develop a PC software. Today, ten years later, with just a simple training, we can develop a mobile app or a mobile game. The threshold for programmers has been greatly lowered, but the demand for programmers has not decreased. Instead, more programmers are needed to engage in development work.

So, what kind of programmers can stand firm in the future 5G era, not only will they not be unemployed, but they may also get promoted and get a raise, and reach the peak of their lives? First of all, they must actively embrace change. From the PC era to the Internet era, although the demand for programmers has increased, some old PC positions have not increased, such as PC software development, but have greatly decreased. The same is true in the future. The development of mobile apps has been saturated, and we must actively embrace the development of new platforms. Secondly, we must persist in learning. Technology is changing with each passing day. If we don’t want to be eliminated, we must keep up with the pace of others!