It doesn't feel like it if you're living in MOST places. I bought my first house 6 months after graduating from college (2000). It cost me roughly 3x my salary at the time. I know what I pay new grads right now, and it's way more than I made back then. There's no way they can afford a house like that at 3x their salary. It's closer to 4-5x, and we are nowhere near as expensive in this area as NYC, SF, DC, etc.
Started using Solaris 7 in college when Sun made it available for free. All you had to do was fill out a web form! I absolutely loved it. To this day it remains my favorite OS to use. I love macOS and its ease of use (plus its Unix-ish support) but there's something about Solaris that always made me feel like I was doing "real" work.
I do miss JetBrains' AppCode and their support for Swift in CLion. I wish they would open-source those plugins so that they can continue to be used in modern versions of CLion.
I absolutely love Swift. I find it to be such an elegant language. I've done a few macOS/iOS apps with it over the years, but have really come to love it on the server. There are a couple of areas I feel could use some improvement with respect to cross-platform support, but overall the use of frameworks like Vapor have been a breeze to work with.
More support for language interoperability like this will just enhance the cross-platform experience. The Java ecosystem is what makes it so attractive to enterprises. Swift being able to easily take advantage of open-source C/C++ libraries will help with the migration.
I began using Solaris in college when Sun made Solaris 7 free for anyone who wanted it. I still remember getting the huge package of CDs in the mail and installing them on my Pentium II desktop at home. It quickly became my favorite OS. When I used it, I felt like I was doing "real" work. I can't explain it. It wasn't a consumer OS like Windows, and it was more stable and polished than Linux was at the time. I miss those days.
As part of my post-cancer screening, I have received a full-body MRI every year since 2017. In 2024, it discovered pancreatic cancer. Grateful for those years where it found nothing, but even MORE grateful when it did catch something!
I remember the first time I found this list and playing around with it using Microsoft QuickBASIC. I couldn't believe how much more functionality it opened up to me. Mouse support. Graphics support. Fun memories!
App code was a really great IDE, Especially if you were developing server-side Swift. I wish JetBrains would've open sourced the plugins so it could carry on
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