[spcelzrd]

25 years ago it was much the same as it is today. In 1992 people were typing ASCII characters into a text editor and debugging with logs and print statements.

You can do so much more with a line of code now and there are so many more ways to make user interfaces, but the fundamental actions of the programmer are the same.

[flukus]

Fundamentally it's just a good level abstraction. Much like we still use writing for most communication even though we have audio and video options.