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All fields are abstractions on top of abstractions. Do you think every coder learns quantum physics? Certainly not, but it's vitally important for all modern co
by delecti 9y ago
All fields are abstractions on top of abstractions. Do you think every coder learns quantum physics? Certainly not, but it's vitally important for all modern computers. At some point everyone must decide either that they've cleared away enough abstractions for their purposes, or that their purpose is clearing away those abstractions.
- zokier 9y agoI'd point out the crucial detail that terminal handling arcana is not really "low level" thing; from abstraction point of view it sits pretty much on the same layer as DOM details or whatnot. You could know everything from low-level kernel innards to latest front-end framework fluff and never encounter terminal handling in any way. Text terminals are ultimately an evolutionary dead end (or at least so it seems currently), almost all modern stuff diverges from it instead of building on it.