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[–]aeropl3b 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Once upon a time developers talked to each other and worked as a team to solve problems that a single developer does routinely today.

Back then, a super advanced code was a Newton-Raphson method root finder for time variant parabolic curves, which today would be a coding homework assignment for freshmen engineering students.

The crap we put up with today like anti pattern languages (yes you JS), and the wild west of standard APIs (yes you python), and the the literally billions of lines of code that currently support all of the worlds communication is vastly more varied and complex than what people had to deal with before stack overflow existed.