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Tom Forsyth · 1w
Fabian talked some about how languages are fundamentally tools, and they're all flawed, and no one language will solve all problems. And I absolutely agree. Some people spend a lot of time creating ne...
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I can't find it in the video, but there was a question about how far down the stack you need to know. I mean Fabian and I like to know all the way down to the metal. But that's because we're strange. Most people do not - it's absolutely not necessary to get stuff done.
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Tom Forsyth · 1w
But these two things are related - language choice, and how far down you need to know. Because I do think that whatever language you use, you should know the "next level down". When you're writing code, you should be able to fairly simply translate in your head to the language below it.