On getting software, particularly development software, its amazingly about even. Sure, I had to shuffle through a lot of floppies to install early versions of VC++ or VB. But, today, I find myself waiting, and waiting, for NPM or NuGet packages/updates to download every time I load a solution.
Has it really improved? I'm not sure. I'm now using command line tools a lot again, something I thought I had left behind after Windows 95.
I agree source control is a lot better now.
Open source is great now but there were some good free or low cost tools back in the olden days. You just needed to know where to get them.
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On getting software, particularly development software, its amazingly about even. Sure, I had to shuffle through a lot of floppies to install early versions of VC++ or VB. But, today, I find myself waiting, and waiting, for NPM or NuGet packages/updates to download every time I load a solution.
Has it really improved? I'm not sure. I'm now using command line tools a lot again, something I thought I had left behind after Windows 95.
I agree source control is a lot better now.
Open source is great now but there were some good free or low cost tools back in the olden days. You just needed to know where to get them.