[littlestymaar]

And this is why pretty much all commercial software is terrible and runs slower than the equivalent 20 years ago despite incredible advance in hardware.

[philipallstar]

For lots of software there wasn't an equivalent 20 years ago because there wasn't a language that would let developers explore semi-specified domains fast enough to create something useful. Unless it was visual basic, but we can't use that, because what would all the UX people be for?

[littlestymaar]

Python itself is 30 years old. What are you talking about?

Almost every mainstream languages (except Go, Swift, Kotlin and Rust) are more than 30 years old, by the way.