Careful what you wish for development in the 70's, 80's and the beginning of the 90's was fragmented and we had a wealth of systems and languages to dive into a

Careful what you wish for development in the 70's, 80's and the beginning of the 90's was fragmented and we had a wealth of systems and languages to dive into and explore. Then Windows dominated the desktop, Linux ate the server world and Java went on to dominate most non-system level software development. It went from a great time to be a developer to an extremely mundane task. Today we have captured some of that back, but it is not like it was. Fragmentation also means choices and choices to explore.