> Everybody is pampered now with swiss army knife languages Wow. Who's sneering again? > Many of the HN crowd will sneer at the idea of this sort of low level

> Everybody is pampered now with swiss army knife languages Wow. Who's sneering again? > Many of the HN crowd will sneer at the idea of this sort of low level coding but it is still important in many domains Yeah, we do. Because developer-cum-interviewers for companies writing marketing-optimized CRUD apps use these as filters (or to make them feel superior, take your pick), and sneer at people who can't bark out the proper magic incantation for reversing a linked list on demand. And let's be honest. Unless you're in an exceptionally specific field with exceptionally restricted resources, using the "swiss army libraries" will create more performant code than a human can. Because those "pampered languages" have been optimized to ridiculous degrees.