Yeah I think you nailed it. I think there's also different levels of hacker culture. I couldn't tell you a thing about golang's GC, but as a young kid I was abs

Yeah I think you nailed it. I think there's also different levels of hacker culture. I couldn't tell you a thing about golang's GC, but as a young kid I was absolutely fascinated by computers and learning at such an extreme pace. I was much more of a hacker type than I am now. And much of that is because I had basically unlimited time to learn. And you had to have a passion for it because there was typically no one to help you back then. Some of the stuff I coded as a kid I would struggle to make even now!