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Thanks for brilliantly putting in to words what I had trouble trying to communicate these years. I remember learning C++ as a teenager confused by boreland manu

Thanks for brilliantly putting in to words what I had trouble trying to communicate these years. I remember learning C++ as a teenager confused by boreland manuals and meaning of obscure terms like "file handle" and cryptic errors. Now all it takes in right click + inspect element to open a JS console. This is just the beginning.

JustSomeNobody 10y ago
That, to me, is what made coding more fun. You _couldn't_ simply click something. You had to try and fail and try and fail. The late 80's, early 90's were much more fun programming than today. There wasn't 20 layers of abstraction between the developer and the machine. You had to code against the metal, so to speak.
- girvo 10y ago
  > You had to code against the metal, so to speak These days, you can actually code the metal itself (so to speak) with easily and cheaply available FPGAs! That to me is even more exciting, certainly a lot of fun, and at least I've been doing a lot of trying and failing with it.
  - sklogic 10y ago
    You can do it as a hobby, yes. But if it is your job, you'll still have to navigate your way through impenetrable piles of convoluted needless layers. Not to mention the awful closed-source toolchains.
- aub3bhat 10y ago
  I think I view programming as mental abstractions in action, or to put as Steve Jobs did bicycles for the mind. https://youtu.be/ob_GX50Za6c https://youtu.be/ob_GX50Za6c