If you look at DOS source code, DOOM source code you will see lots of optimization If you look at VSCode code, you’ll see even more of these. What really chang

If you look at DOS source code, DOOM source code you will see lots of optimization If you look at VSCode code, you’ll see even more of these. What really changed was more people wanted to hack things and write non-PhD code, and the web tech was (sadly) popular enough to take this role. It’s not programmers who are lazy, it was that desktop frameworks utterly failed in their non-competive niches. MSVC libraries replaced each other almost faster than github’s new web frameworks, to the point that barely anyone can remember their chronology. Gtk+ got stuck for years dealing with C legacy, added non-C styling engines too late, and then got “owned” by a particularly deteriorating DE. Qt always had a not-so-clear position on community-licensed versions, and C++ impedance mismatch didn’t help that either. UI/AppKits got pretty useful and advanced in recent ~ten years, but were ios/osx only. Minor frameworks like fox, wx, fltk, etc never got enough traction or new ideas and were just shadows of their bigger brothers. Meanwhile, with electron, bootstrap and little js one can make a page in few minutes, which could take few hours on conventional desktop. I mean, you are correct that programming went from hardcore to relaxed mode, but there is more history to it in ui sense.