This might be off topic, but the illustrations in the article are nice! Crux really did a good job there. In regards to the actual article: as someone who prim

This might be off topic, but the illustrations in the article are nice! Crux really did a good job there. In regards to the actual article: as someone who primarily works in higher abstraction level languages (Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, ...), i find it really nice that i can spend more time thinking about domain/business concepts and problems, instead of worrying about the lower level concerns. My hat's off to the people who valiantly work on the lower levels of the stack.