I think back to how things have changed in the computer world and I'm amazed. Back in the 80's there was no internet, email and bulletin boards were all dial-up. But the computers were functional (Epson 8086 machine - $2K) and we appreciated what they did. If you needed a program that wasn't available, you wrote it. You had that powerhouse 'Basic' for starters, and if that didn't work, you could spring for Borland's Turbo Pascal. Need to debug? Spend the evening with a 1/2" thick hexadecimal core dump - no trouble sleeping after that. Wrote my first finite element software on an Atari 400, which I then ported over to an Apple III. Got another piece of finite element stuff thru Byte magazine - FEA program called MicroSafe (Byte still exist?) - only 2D (x, y) but converted it to do axi-symmetric stuff (r, z). Haven't done any of that fun stuff for probably 15 years...
Today all the programmers seem to be on Linux platforms developing GNU stuff. I've lost either the need or the desire - perhaps both. I still get the occasional urge to get into it, but "my tools have gotten rusty".