So C, C++, and Rust programmers will be in demand, and other languages will shrink?
Does this also relate to rising DRAM costs, which will make memory-efficient code more usable as we head into an unseen future?
The costs of hardware will take a long time to percolate up to software architecture, if they ever do.
Until current computers cycle out, people will largely keep their 1-3 year old machine with sane amounts of memory. If we start seeing large numbers of machines in the wild with 4GB of memory, then maybe software will adapt. But that won't be for several years yet.
It definitely doesn't relate, the time horizon is wrong. The software needs much longer to change, and that change needs much longer to appear in the job market. Compared to the timeframe in the article DRAM prices have only just spiked up now.
Projecting into the future, hardware expenses have always been dwarfed by salaries. I don't expect that will change enough for it to be noticeable.
