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It's a bit ironic to be saying this in the context of HN, the tech stack is built up on layers of abstraction that little of us have mastery of. If we made it
by corimaith 2y ago
It's a bit ironic to be saying this in the context of HN, the tech stack is built up on layers of abstraction that little of us have mastery of.
If we made it so that only people who mastered assembly could be considered "real programmers" we'd get nowhere, certainly not to build modern web applications or video games.
- milesrout 2y agoPeople that have a poor understanding of the stack under them almost invariably produce very poor software. Video games are an area where in fact good software is still produced, mostly because the people working on the cores of games DO know (at least how to read) assembly language. Modern web applications on the other hand so basically the same things we were doing with computers 20 years ago but consume 100x the resources to do so. No "modern web application" comes anywhere near the quality of Word or Excel 2003.