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I mean, I feel like more programmers were working closer to the metal back in the day. In the 80s you needed to understand computer hardware much better and th
by asdfman123 7y ago
I mean, I feel like more programmers were working closer to the metal back in the day.
In the 80s you needed to understand computer hardware much better and there was a bigger fraction of C++ developers. Now all those people have migrated to hardware (or have kept doing it) because that's where their skills are needed.
- tcbawo 7y agoMy experience has been that many younger engineers don't want to work closer to the metal as much. They want to work on the bleeding edge, sexier technologies.
- bpicolo 7y agoI would enjoy working close to the metal in some capacity, it's just not really what the majority of modern tech businesses require, and moving in that direction is likely not worth the sort of career reset it would require.