I learned programming in turbo C++ - not because I grew up in 1990s, but because Indian education system is stuck in 1990s.

> So the question I want to part with is: have we advanced much in 30 years? Modern IDEs have some better refactoring tools, better features, and support more languages, but fundamentally… they haven’t changed much.

I can't give up any of: intellisense, type checking as I type, semantically meaningful navigation.