Why is low-level programming dominated by boomers? Why is webdev correlated with onions?
Why is low-level programming dominated by boomers? Why is webdev correlated with onions?
Matthew Jenkins
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Julian James
Camden Morgan
>Why is low-level programming dominated by boomers
They fell for the "I'm gonna be an awesome greybeard master wizard coder one day" meme when they were 17 in 1974.
>Why is webdev correlated with onions?
because it is the "nice house on the corner" that everyone sees when they drive past the neighborhood
Zachary Rogers
>Why is webdev correlated with onions
I hate my webdev job, but why onions?
And what do I need to do to pivot to a low-level job?
Someone help me get out of this webdev hell.
Austin Lopez
most of them actually did become "greybeard master wizard coders" though
Elijah Cook
yeah, true. I guess I'm just picking on the ones who only did the bare minimum through the years. When I think of "low-level programming greys" I think of guys who never wanted to stop living in a world where all they needed to know was perl :/
Joseph Hughes
>Why is low-level programming dominated by boomers
Because they started on computers which allowed only low level programming. That's all that's to it. Up to 1980s programming in assembly was totally normal and prevalent. Higher level languages like Pascal or C only started getting a mainstream attention at the time.
When someone starts programming today, the usual language that gets recommended to them is Python or JavaScript. A vast majority of programmers born after ~1980 never went through the low level phase.
Also those old computers were quite simple and programming in assembly or even hex was possible and sometimes even enjoyable, unlike on modern CPUs.
Julian Cooper
Programming in assembly is still possible, the CPU is fine but modern operating systems and execution formats are the biggest hassles imaginable.
Linkers as we know them were a goddamn mistake and I'd like nothing better than to piss on the grave of their inventor.
Also, whatever committee of trannies came up with ELF can fucking communally dialate each other.
Camden James
>modern operating systems and execution formats are the biggest hassles imaginable
I heard the best way to learn x86 assembly is to start programming in DOS (or even DOSBox). Is that true? It should be simpler that Windows or Linux...
Daniel Bennett
Boomers were actually allowed to read the 50 page manuals and know what their low level programming did and changed. All that shit is locked behind patented copyrighted black boxes now with 2000 page manuals that only some employees of parts of a company have access to.
The zoomers have no chance to learn low level because they are locked out from the very beginning even if they wanted to.