This is such an insanely short-sighted and downright ignorant statement to make. Not everyone is working with highly abstracted "web applications". If your enti

This is such an insanely short-sighted and downright ignorant statement to make. Not everyone is working with highly abstracted "web applications". If your entire infrastructure doesn't think of anything lower than HTTP, sure. But the industry is so much larger and there are so many reasons to care about the actual hardware your code runs on.