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0 pointselzbardico3y ago0 comments

Maybe I am older, having started in the late 90's. But I think developer tools nowadays are so cheap compared to my salary that I pay for them without thinking twice.

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xtracto3y ago

I clearly remember paying around $80 USD for a WholeTomato [1] license back in 2003 for C# when I first came out of University into my first job. And that was a glorified auto-completer.

Software has turned really cheap. The downside of is that it is almost a commodity, but the development effort has not really decreased correspondingly.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030618043241/http://www.wholet...

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0 pointselzbardico3y ago0 comments

Maybe I am older, having started in the late 90's. But I think developer tools nowadays are so cheap compared to my salary that I pay for them without thinking twice.

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xtracto3y ago

I clearly remember paying around $80 USD for a WholeTomato [1] license back in 2003 for C# when I first came out of University into my first job. And that was a glorified auto-completer.

Software has turned really cheap. The downside of is that it is almost a commodity, but the development effort has not really decreased correspondingly.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20030618043241/http://www.wholet...

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