> "I find it pretty amazing that old-timey[1] 'programmers' fail to understand modern VM architecture" Especially given that they've been "modern" from around

> "I find it pretty amazing that old-timey[1] 'programmers' fail to understand modern VM architecture" Especially given that they've been "modern" from around 1970s, not changing much since then (tracing JITs are likely to be the only significant improvement). > how little some C kernel hackers know about how the modern Web works Uhm... Screw the web. It's boring and irrelevant. It does not really worth knowing. It's better to stay away from it, for a sake of sanity. > async programming patterns Had been around long, long before all that web crap.