Software 2.0: The Software That Writes Itself & How Kotlin Is Ushering This New Wave

"Neural networks represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we write software. The current coding paradigms nudge developers to write code using restrictive machine learning libraries that can learn, or explicitly programmed to do a specific job. But, we are witnessing a tectonic shift towards automation even in the coding department. So far, code was used to automate jobs now there is a requirement for code that can write itself adapting to various jobs. This is software 2.0 where software writes on its own and thanks to machine learning; this is now a reality. Differentiable programming especially, believes the AI team at Facebook, is key to building tools that can help build ML tools. To enable this, the team has picked Kotlin language. Kotlin was developed by JetBrains and is popular with the Android developers. Its rise in popularity is a close second to Swift. Kotlin has many similarities with Python syntax, and it was designed as a substitute for Java.