Dan Lyke on Nostr: npub1wa4lf…t9nmn And, of course the competition in the languages meant that there ...

npub1wa4lf799kuajpq8cqudg3n765tggeppxylyhtwhaxw4hce2mlnms7t9nmn (npub1wa4…9nmn) And, of course the competition in the languages meant that there were myriad C compilers, and assorted editors and other dev tools, once you graduated from the Turbo languages.

I think it was the advent of the GUI that brought that all crashing down. Windows consolidated a whole bunch of dev tools, and increased the complexity of development

I'd also be remiss to not mention HyperCard on the Mac, which was remarkably powerful.