Guess it depends what you mean by better. Also, in today’s context we have exponentially more complexity thats abstracted away. OS, drivers, user land software,

Guess it depends what you mean by better. Also, in today’s context we have exponentially more complexity thats abstracted away. OS, drivers, user land software, heck even browsers alone. Given this, I do think we have a lot of glue and duct tape fastening our digital world together. But some of the low level stuff done today is probably just as good as would be done in the 80’s if not more, given the now easier access to information, and complexity requirements to even participate in low level development being higher. I imagine a dev from the 80’s (like my professor from college) may be dismally annoyed at the amount of abstractions some languages have. Spring boot for Java? So much ‘magic’. He’d say “just write it in PHP” lol