The problem back in the day was always documentation and concept-acquisition. To some extent documentation is still a problem, but at least with modern language

The problem back in the day was always documentation and concept-acquisition. To some extent documentation is still a problem, but at least with modern languages a lot of the APIs and data structures for common tasks are sitting at your finger-tips, you don't have to reinvent them, so "throwing something onto the screen" is a faster process, and you usually get much more helpful error messages. The concepts are still problematic though.