(I just added bigint support to a silly little interpreter project I'm working on. It took about fifteen minutes, four of which were looking up git commands, and the compiler told me what to change. Year 2021 and so it goes...)

Sometimes I explain things like this to my a friend of mine who is at least as smart as I am but doesn't computer and it's always so humbling.

To an intelligent outsider we (ye olde IT industry) look so goddamned silly.