[UltraViolence]

Maybe not for the compiler, but you pay though your nose for almost everything else!

Look at how Microsoft is pushing everyone to the Cloud, including desktops. All their developer products are wholly focused on pushing your workloads to Azure.

[pjmlp]

Because the only way to make money selling software to devs in 2022 seems to go back into timesharing days, with phosphor terminals and X terms now replaced by the browser and cloud shells.

Any old timer can map those cloud prices to the oldie mainframes workloads accounting.