I initially sympathized with this line of thinking, but someone recently convinced me otherwise. The logic is as follows: * Do programmers still fool around wi

I initially sympathized with this line of thinking, but someone recently convinced me otherwise. The logic is as follows: * Do programmers still fool around with Cobol or Assembly or Fortran? Not so much * How important is C nowadays? Yes - everything runs on it - but that is because for the most part it is rock solid, and we need fewer and fewer C developers * The set of "primitives" required has moved up a layer of abstraction. New skills include: website builders, data pipelines, infra-as-code, cloud infra, web frameworks, etc. If people are still hacking the same way as they were 20 and 30 years ago, that is a problem. Yes, the hacking today surely looks different than it did decades ago - the primitives are larger and higher leverage - but there is hacking all the same.