Comment by ivolimmen

The most I miss about those times is the simplicity and availability. Each computer had BASIC. Did not matter what computer. Now Windows comes default with Powershell and .NET (?) but no IDE. Linux comes default with Python and vi but that is hardly for beginners. As I am a Java developer I follow the developments of Java and recently stuff has been added to make Java easy to start with. So you can start with only "void main() { System.out.println("Hello world"); }" and it would run. Nice that people can get into coding easier but you still need to find an IDE and download an SDK...