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by jacknews 2148 days ago
"Languages like these made programming a lot easier and took many things out of the programmer’s hands. They were object-oriented and came with things as an IDE and garbage collection.

This meant that programmers had fewer things to worry about"

Yeah, right. Those lazy programmers.

It's obviously become easier to build complex software, but software is now required to be much more complex. There are still many things to worry about (actually far more than previously, I'd say), but they're not the same things.