Comment Re:Oh good. (Score 4, Insightful) 63
That started in the late ’80s and ’90s, when Microsoft discovered you could ship software the way a raccoon ships garbage: everywhere, immediately, full of bugs, and with zero intention of coming back for it. Shame was deprecated. Embarrassment got a service pack and was never seen again.
Then the frameworks showed up. Visual Basic. PowerBuilder. Tools designed so that if your IQ matched room temperature, you could still drag a button onto a form and ruin someone’s afternoon. Coding was no longer a profession. It was a hobby you could pick up between meetings and a mild head injury.
The real extinction event was Java, especially its GUI framework. Swing didn’t just lower the bar. It buried the bar, held a funeral, and invited the criminally unwell and the sadistic business analyst to give the eulogy. Suddenly anyone with a corporate login and a grudge could produce “software” (term used the way “artisan” is used on a gas-station sandwich) that your overlord would then force the entire building to click until their souls filed a ticket.