Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "Was Software Engineering Harder In The 90's Than It Is Now?" video.

The vast majority of the so called "developers" don't know how to write code, period. Even bad code.
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Tools are not any better. If you think your bloated development environment based on the deplorable Electron of all things is any better than an average IDE we had since 80s, think again.
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My experience does not match yours at all. Portability across the very diverse Unix world was a solved problem (autotools). Portability between *nixes and VMS was not an issue either. Caring about crap platforms like PCs was an easy to avoid mistake.
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@mandisaw or, you could stick to Unix and be happy. Did so since the 80s, and my software stack now is not too different from what I had for decades.
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Do you realise that Lisp existed since forever? That we had Smalltalk since 80s? That we had Perl and Tcl?
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We had much better software in the 80 and 90s. We have much much worse developers now in 202x. So yes, development was easier, we did not have to tolerate that much awful software written by awful people.
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There is only one meaning to "M.A.D." - mutually assured destruction. People must stop trying to fit anything else there.
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@ wrong.
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@bernardd yet, Borland Pascal compiled instantly woth no visible delay on an 8086.
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@martinjungmair705 software had a lot less bugs. A lot better usability. Was a lot more responsive than the current overbloated ill-designed software. And had all the features end users needed.
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@martinjungmair705 of course there was a lot of crap software back then. Pretty much everything on PC was awful (and now is even more awful), with an exception for Borland products. I'm talking about the proper software (Unix, VMS) of that era. In particular, everything from Microsoft was absolutely awful, maybe with an exception for the first Windows NT release.
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