Software engineering has dominated the manufacturing industry every where for last couple of decades, mainly after the industry seek a lot for AI and Automation.
Though mechanical and electronics engineering are not hugely dominated, but Mechatronics has taken an edge over the whole technology by mixing computer programming with the science of mechanical and intelligence of electronics.
The recent trend e in software engineering was largely dominated by Web 2.0
More importance has been given to UI, which is easily achieved with rich web applications and resulting the desktop application to become unusable.
Now Single-Page Application is on more demand, where most of the programs have been moved to the client's side.
The very old JScript is evoluting every day to support the SPAs. thats why we can find new JavaScript frameworks everywhere in the web workspace. They seems to reborn with new concept and capabilities every other week.
JavaScript has become very popular today with its own packages with all essential components.
People are more focused on open-source code, which actullay has enabled to explore the bigger codes with minimum efforts. Again this has encouraged to faster development and knowledge sharing. Programmers no need to go through the hit and trial method every time.
Lastly AI and machine learning are getting more and more popular today. Its applicable to every possible field from household to bug manufacturing units. Self driven cars are a very good example of this. Seems with the techlogy we are going to automate each and everything soon in world.