I have the impression that programming has become easier. It used to be that you needed a compiler, editor and so on to build desktop apps. Now, many products s

I have the impression that programming has become easier. It used to be that you needed a compiler, editor and so on to build desktop apps. Now, many products support scripting in some form, so people jump to that. Or, they support data export, so people write a python script which can read that data. Etc.