Software in 2014 by Tim Bray
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/01/01/Software-in-2014
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Were at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we really dont know where were going or how to get there.