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So who are the people building the pieces of software that ordinary developers are combining and integrating? The next Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, John
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
So who are the people building the pieces of software that ordinary developers are combining and integrating? The next Linus Torvalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, John Carmack, etc. is going to need to know the first principles like the back of their hand to build the next generation of operating systems, languages, and platforms. That's "real software engineering"; what most developers do is merely coding.
- klodolph 4y agoThe curriculum isn't being removed from existence, it's just being removed from the introductory classes. There are probably more people making their own OS from scratch in 2023 than in 1993 anyway--we have many more people with access to computers, and tons of free resources online for people who want to learn computer architecture, operating systems, assembly language, etc. This is not some kind of hypothetical supposition that "there must be people out there"; I know for a fact these people are out there because I keep meeting them, and some of them are damn young. The idea of genius men making stuff from first principles is just some kind of Hollywood schlock version of programming anyway. It's the stuff you see on NCIS when they make an episode about hackers. All the good stuff has been a team effort, even if it starts out as a solo project. Maybe with a few exceptions like cURL.
- inimino 4y agoThose people are the ones who can't be stopped, and they will continue to exist as long as people continue to pursue understanding for its own sake.