I used a Borland Java IDE in the 1990s with auto refactoring like “extract method” and global renaming and such. Dev tools were not bad at all back then. In a

I used a Borland Java IDE in the 1990s with auto refactoring like “extract method” and global renaming and such. Dev tools were not bad at all back then. In a few ways they were better than today, like WYSIWYG GUI design which we have wholly abandoned. Old school Visual Basic was a crummy programming language but the GUI builder was better than anything I’m familiar with for a desktop OS today.