> Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard Most of these are gone. Not replaced by something better IMO. Excel is holding on though. > We've got IDEs that compile in

> Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard Most of these are gone. Not replaced by something better IMO. Excel is holding on though. > We've got IDEs that compile in a flash, compared to the interminable compiles of the past. That's a huge improvement to productivity. Compilers are faster, IDEs got slower. Tech stacks got fat. Things got distributed. Shit’s complex now. But I’ll give you git. Git is a win indeed.