| | December 20169CIOReviewThe possibility of a compile target to run just about any language and any application on a web platform is on the horizon.Applications are becoming more and more complex, forcing web developers to create stricter language level features. As a result, both static typing and functional programming have become more prominent. Typescript and Dart deliver type features on top of JavaScript, and new languages like Go and Elixir apply types by default. The functional language Elixir goes even further, avoiding mutable data and shared state altogether. The growing quantity of cores and processors has increased the challenge for building applications that can efficiently make use of the processing power. Both Go and Elixir are designed to make handling concurrent processes easier compared with more traditional web technologies. Scaling a web application across a vast number of concurrent connections has always been a challenge for developers. This will only become more challenging and demanding as the number of distributed devices across mobile and IoT (Internet of Things) continues to grow. As the languages of Go and Elixir meet these challenges and as they grow in use, we will see more tools become available.An increasing number of applications are beginning to make use of big data tools to efficiently search, store and analyze the massive amount of users' expanding data. The services created on Spark, Elastic search, and Hadoop will become commonplace. The ability to scale applications across multiple distributed servers and data stores will be critical. As we move into the age of AI and machine learning, these services will need to be integrated into web-based applications. These services could become bots that interact with users and create custom logic that changes the UX/UI of an application as it learns and reacts to the experience of customers. Google and Facebook are investing resources and capital into AI and machine learning, leveraging the open source community to deliver these kinds of features and functionality.As Web development accelerates, making predictions can prove challenging. Technology leaders have toremember that no web development technology is flawless or even clearly better than any other. At the end of the day, it's a call based on resources and their skill level. The future of web development will be packed with exciting revolutions and fascinating innovative advances. The future of web development will be packed with exciting revolutions and fascinating innovative advances
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