Kids today don't get enough credit. A friend's son was so excited to show off the Roblox game him and his friends were making a couple of weeks ago. Was there f

Kids today don't get enough credit. A friend's son was so excited to show off the Roblox game him and his friends were making a couple of weeks ago. Was there for (Canadian) thanksgiving so there was some family friends and tons of people from his family there. He had already picked out something he thought each of us would be interested about it, and I was the "show him the Lua!" guy! People assume that because their phone/laptop is locked down and unable to spark curiosity that it must be the same for kids today, but I think they just become a little more un-curious themselves. Yeah it's built on some abstractions, but I do think there's some valleys among the tall abstraction mountains that the curious few venture into, just as it's always been. Yes, c64 BASIC lets you POKE at any memory address you want, but I was getting a pitch about a complex 3D collect-a-thon with FPS elements, from a 10 year old. That's also kind of cool.