You're right: coding standards have improved. Still, I wonder if we might be biased. From my perspective I see a lot of well engineered code (Scala, Rust), but

You're right: coding standards have improved. Still, I wonder if we might be biased. From my perspective I see a lot of well engineered code (Scala, Rust), but the majority of the code produced is probably not that clean. The move to mobile has really opened up new opportunities and it seems this discussion is less relevant. Then again, loads of apps are web-apps underneath.