Juniper shows its intent with Dev, er, no, sorry, make that... EngNet

Juniper Networks has taken the wraps off what will be one of the year's biggest efforts for the biz: the EngNet network software developer toolset and its associated education, technical exchange, APIs, training, and ecosystem. EngNet's aim, the company said, is to provide enough automation to get rid of the command-line …

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Bad news

Unless the network saavy of developers has increased massively in the last 30 years, and as far as I can tell, it hasn't, this is going to be an unmitigated disaster. I'm not saying there aren't any developers who understand networking and security, but it's a very, very low number.