[pantulis]

> I’m pretty sure that fun never really disappeared but rather than developers team are now full of non "computer people", like, people who never cared about computers from the start.

I think there is something simply due to aging. I grew up writing BASIC and machine code on a Commodore Vic20. Programming was inherently playing. Fast forward 4 decades, I do not write code for a living any more but I can see how senior coders I work with do not have that sense of joy. But it's not like the industry has became this or that way, it's that our lives have changed and we became old enough to understand that work is work, and playing is playing. As the lyric goes we have traded the maybe for the sure, we have filled our pockets with keys and responsibilities.

I still write code from time to time just to be slightly informed of trends, but my corollary would be: if your programming job makes you feel like you are playing, do not be afraid to enjoy it at all costs because that too shall pass.