Comment by WarmWash
9 hours ago
It's crazy to think back in the 80's programmers had "mild" salaries despite programming back then being worlds more punishing. No libraries, no stack exchange, no forums, no endless memory and infinite compute. If you had a challenging bug you better also be proficient in reading schematics and probing circuits.
on the bright side software evolved much more slowly in the 80s. You could go very far by being an expert in 1 thing.
People had real offices with actual quiet focus time.
User expectations were also much lower.
pros and cons i guess?