> Not much. I had a NeXT cube and the user + developer experience on my M1 Air is largely the same. I recently (3 years ago) started developing on iOS and MacO

> Not much. I had a NeXT cube and the user + developer experience on my M1 Air is largely the same. I recently (3 years ago) started developing on iOS and MacOS. I learnt programming on Mac Plus in the late 1980s early 1990s Wow, what a change. In the 1988-92 Macs were the bees knees for development. Really good. Now, definitely not. I regularly switch between Mac, Linux, and Windows for development. Development on iOS and MacOS is deeply painful. The tools are flash, lots of features, and they mostly work, that is they do not really work. Apple took US$99 from me for a license to write software for their machines, and now I cannot run my software on iOS unless I am connected to the Internet, so they can "verify" my license. (I never got the license - another sad story) Many times, regularly, the "verification" process goes awry and I spend time trying to work out which particular string of gobeldy gook I need to enter n which obscure part of Xcode to get the equipment I (my boss) paid for to do anything other than be dead weight. The flagship language (Swift) is half arsed. Some bits are OK, but the threading model is from the 1990s dressed in drag. Memory management by reference counting? Golly, how 1990s. Passing class parameters by reference as default, but not struct parameters - say what? Distributing the software we write to the users that need to use it is immensely painful, not my immediate problem, but I watch people in my firm tear their hair out trying to make it work. How the mighty have fallen.