[mianos]

Yes everything is better. I like the way languages like python have dicts completely built in and in modern C++ maps are almost as native.

The amount of code that needs to be done is the same it just does a lot more.

I started in 8085 assembly language. Everything had to be done from scratch. It was still similar; see a problem, work out how to solve it, write it and debug it.

It is certainly much better now. I am not sure about debugging. There were years at a time when I only used IDE based debuggers, but now, with much more containerisation I probably do as much visual code inspection to solve issues as I ever did.