I mean, that Pentium III he shows up top probably cost $900, and even with inflation, a Windows laptop with 4gb of RAM costs $250 off Amazon.com right now. The

I mean, that Pentium III he shows up top probably cost $900, and even with inflation, a Windows laptop with 4gb of RAM costs $250 off Amazon.com right now. The "low-end PCs" that the author complains are being left out by Electron apps... a lot more people have PCs capable of running VS Code than had PCs that could run the old Borland IDEs back then. Computing is more accessible now, not less.