I recently retired as a software developer after 30 years in the trenches. I've written everything from Assembly to C#.
I worked freelance for the last 15years. I don't know how many tons (all code is measured by the metric ton) of code I have written.
A good friend (and decent enough programmer) once told me that
Programming is easy, good Ideas are difficult.
Inexperience sometimes makes people believe a particular tool or technology will instantly solve a problem. Experience shows us mostly this is not true. It is people who take the tools and make the product what it is.
In the hands of Stradivari a chisel is a formidable tool. In my hands it is but a pry bar.
The boys and girls at PG Music have put together a first class piece of code for over a decade now. This is MUCH longer than most programs survive.
Hats off to them.
They never could have done it in JAVA!!!