> But that was incredibly hard, and error prone (and comes with tonnes of limitations). No, it wasn't. If it was incredible anything it was tedious. But nobody

> But that was incredibly hard, and error prone (and comes with tonnes of limitations). No, it wasn't. If it was incredible anything it was tedious. But nobody really expected anything super complex from you. Just look at the kinds of programs that were produced in 80s or 90s. It would be incredibly hard today. Machines got very complex, operating systems got very complex. But it wasn't so complex in 90s. I think I stopped writing assembly when I started using WINAPI because that was the point when assembly stopped being practical. Sometimes I wonder how I would fare if I was 18yo again today and had to start in development and learn everything from scratch. I feel being able to learn everything as the technologies were evolving is a huge advantage I enjoy.