Having programmed alone in the eighties, I can just feel it's much better. For example, I needed to do some UI but back then I hadn't the money to buy a toolki

Having programmed alone in the eighties, I can just feel it's much better. For example, I needed to do some UI but back then I hadn't the money to buy a toolkit (Windows was still some years away). Therefore I had to spend much time on making a UI and that UI was just a small concern to me. Today, I have an idea for a program, then I gather all the libs I can to progress as fast as possible and I just need to code the missing/most important bits. That is, I can concentrate on what's really important and leave plenty of the 80-other-percent to the open source community...