Comment by throwawayboise
4 years ago
Yeah I feel that in a way, the best time to be a developer was back in the 1980s/90s. Your tools were limited but those constraints took away a lot of the "overhead" thinking about what frameworks to use and you could just focus on functionality. You didn't have Google or StackOverflow, but had a few books on your desk that covered pretty much everything you needed to know. Or if you were working on Unix, you had man pages, K&R, and Kernigan and Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment
The reason was you weren't competing with the world class. Programming was great because you could be a local hero.
Now everyone strives to make as beautiful websites as <insert big blue with their genius web framework>
We also didn't have security issues, which helped.