Security is harder. Devices have become more complex and interconnected. Expectations for software are also higher, while there’s more resources poured into fi

Security is harder. Devices have become more complex and interconnected. Expectations for software are also higher, while there’s more resources poured into finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Keeping on top of all of that, isolating your memory access and permissions, etc… is a lot harder today than it was even a few years ago. In every other way I think programming is easier now. Languages are more ergonomic, even the ones that are decades old. Libraries are more easily available and there are tons more resources today than ever before for learning.