> I have the feeling that knowledge about bits is lacking by a lot of younger coders. And I also think this is what causes bloatware. I don't think this is tru

> I have the feeling that knowledge about bits is lacking by a lot of younger coders. And I also think this is what causes bloatware. I don't think this is true. I used to code in assembly and knowledge of bits is largely irrelevant the vast majority of the time now outside of graphics algorithms and low-level number crunching. Algorithmic growth and memory usage are always going to be important though.