It used to be. When I learned to program for windows, I will basically learn Delphi or Visual basic at the time. Maybe some database like paradox. But I was reading a website that lists the skills needed to write backend ant it was like 30 different things to learn.

That's exactly what I have in mind when I wrote the original comment. I learned Visual Basic as a kid faffing around a computer and it was so little boilerplate to make an app. It's been a regression since the.