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These days there are an absurd number of abstraction layers in any computing stack. Fire up anything electron based, and you are looking at scripts being JITed
by digi_owl 8y ago
These days there are an absurd number of abstraction layers in any computing stack.
Fire up anything electron based, and you are looking at scripts being JITed inside a "VM", sitting on top of an OS that abstract away the hardware, sitting on top of hardware that is pretending to be something from the 80s/90s.
- Koshkin 8y ago> electron based Electrons are arguably at the very base of the whole pyramid (I know, I know :). But then again, there's these pieces of Si pretending to be transistors, etc...