I think you're definitely missing out a bit if you don't know anything about low-level stuff. If you've never programmed in C or something like it. I'm a compil

I think you're definitely missing out a bit if you don't know anything about low-level stuff. If you've never programmed in C or something like it. I'm a compiler writer, ant it seems to me people who have only ever used high-level programming languages have pretty poor intuitions about the cost of the language features they use. This being said, I think there there are many more programmers today than there were in the 1980s. So while there is a smaller proportion of programmers doing low-level stuff, there are still many programmers with low-level work experience. I'm doing a PhD in compiler design and I've been approached by several major companies. I think I've been approached 8 or 9 times now. There is still quite a bit of demand for low-level expertise. Low-level coding isn't going to disappear, and luckily for us, the internet allows us to archive all of this knowledge like never before.