>I don't understand why you believe low-level "intrusive" programming and general software engineering are mutually exclusive.
Hmm, while I don't fully agree with his comment,
then your comment reminded me how I hate to discuss programming languages and programming ecosystems with C people.
It feels like C/low lvl people often refer to some "standard" that they treat as a bible of programming languages even when nobody mentions C and they treat GCC/CLANG as a perfect reference for compilers.
So, while high level devs dont understand low lvl stuff, then I believe low lvl programmers aren't creative at very abstract level, very abstract system modeling cuz they're too used to modeling everything with integers in C.
And they're too used to being hurt by C ecosystem that they believe it is "normal".
High level people (web developers) spend a lot of time arguing about their buzzwords like microservices, ddd, oop vs fp, etc.
Honestly, that is fair. My perspective on this is as a high-level developer, looking into how the things I am using daily actually work. I haven't actually interacted with any proper low-level developer, kind of hard to come across them where I am tbh, so I don't have any clue about how snobbish they can be, but I have seen a fair share of high level devs do it too, as you mentioned. I kind of get it? It's like a way to get validation on the technology you are stuck with for the rest of your working lives, I'm guilty of pushing Flutter onto people despite having had a painful experience with it (state management is a nightmare).
But hey ultimately I just think people should satisfy their curiosities. My work is often always in Python, JS or Java, but at some point I got tired of just doing regular software development stuff and lately I've happened to gain interest in low level development. (Like any definitely sane person I chose to start with rust and decided my first ever rust project should be an emulator, so maybe I'm just dead inside and I don't know it yet)
Hmm, while I don't fully agree with his comment,
then your comment reminded me how I hate to discuss programming languages and programming ecosystems with C people.
It feels like C/low lvl people often refer to some "standard" that they treat as a bible of programming languages even when nobody mentions C and they treat GCC/CLANG as a perfect reference for compilers.
So, while high level devs dont understand low lvl stuff, then I believe low lvl programmers aren't creative at very abstract level, very abstract system modeling cuz they're too used to modeling everything with integers in C.
And they're too used to being hurt by C ecosystem that they believe it is "normal".
High level people (web developers) spend a lot of time arguing about their buzzwords like microservices, ddd, oop vs fp, etc.