In some senses I think it has changed, into the modern web dev experience. You've got a living program running, handling events on the DOM, etc. And developer t

In some senses I think it has changed, into the modern web dev experience. You've got a living program running, handling events on the DOM, etc. And developer tools let you inspect and modify objects live, time travel in the debugger, and more. The web I think is where all the mindshare has gone for this type of programming.