How did that vision not work out? Seems pretty on the money to me - only difference between then and now is that we ship components as JARs or node_modules etc,

How did that vision not work out? Seems pretty on the money to me - only difference between then and now is that we ship components as JARs or node_modules etc, and the components are mostly free and open source vs proprietary products. The basic vision that mundane programming would become the assembly of pre-built components has worked out astonishingly well though, to the extent that now many developers actually get upset if they're asked to write a program in an interview that isn't an assembly of pre-built components. They go on HN or reddit and post diatribes about how they should be asked to do "real" work, instead of coding up things they can just grab a component off github to do.