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Re:There's still no silver bullet by SanderNL on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:08PM (#36498006)
> Visual Basic/VBA/Delphi/Hypercard

Most of these are gone. Not replaced by something better IMO. Excel is holding on though.

> We've got IDEs that compile in a flash, compared to the interminable compiles of the past. That's a huge improvement to productivity.

Compilers are faster, IDEs got slower. Tech stacks got fat. Things got distributed. Shit’s complex now.

But I’ll give you git. Git is a win indeed.

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