It has been very eye opening watching young and brilliant programmers who have grown up with mobile devices struggle when it comes to traditional environments.

It has been very eye opening watching young and brilliant programmers who have grown up with mobile devices struggle when it comes to traditional environments. Many struggle with things that seem basic, like file systems, processes, memory management, how to use desktops and even mice, etc. However, once you solve or abstract away those things, many are able to churn out complex software at an impressive rate, particularly when they are able to assemble tool chains and frameworks together like legos. Then they go back to the struggle bus when something in that chain fails or functions unexpectedly. Differences in the types of environments and how they interact with them between age groups makes sense in a pretty boring sort of way, and at any rate is solvable through simple experience. It’s more interesting to me that this observation is another point of correlation in the notion that the industry has aligned itself with productivity over any other metric. While productivity is important, this unbalanced favor has introduced fragility and unsustainability into the industry and end user market.