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Only thing I can think of is we’re so much farther away from the hardware now because of layers of virtualization. 20 years ago the code more or less mapped dir
by camjohnson26 4y ago
Only thing I can think of is we’re so much farther away from the hardware now because of layers of virtualization. 20 years ago the code more or less mapped directly onto a physical reality and you could dig in to it intuitively if something went wrong.
Now with dynamic languages, interpreters, docker, kubernetes, AWS and layers of dev tools and frameworks it can be harder to know what your code is actually doing. But those abstractions can also give you superpowers.
- Aromasin 4y agoI've been a hardware engineer for the past few years and I do think a lot of it seems greener on the other side. I use FPGAs and microcontrollers for a whole host of things, along with traditional electronic elements. The tools more often than not want me to pull my hair out (coded mostly in Tcl...), the technical forums and support are often non-existent, and the technologies quite often haven't been update with QoL changes in 20+ years.