alt Hacker NewsThis sounds like the exact kind of profound pseudo-enlightenment that one gets from psychedelics. Of course, it's all electrons in the end.
Trying to create a secure, reliable and scalable system that enables many people to work on one code base, share their code around with others and at the end of the day coordinate this dance of electrons across multiple computers, that's where all of these 'useless' layers of abstraction become absolutely necessary.
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repeekad • yesterday at 5:13 PM
> pseudo-enlightenment one gets from psychedelics
I like that, I’ve also heard it referred to as “unearned wisdom”
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vernrVingingIt • yesterday at 4:59 PM
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Try almost 30 years in electrical engineering.
I know exactly what those layers of abstraction are used for. Why so many? Jobs making layers of abstraction.
But all of them are dev friendly means of modeling memory states for the CPU to watch and transform just so. They can all be compressed into a generic and generalized set of mathematical functions ridding ourselves of the various parser rules to manage each bespoke syntax inherent to each DSL, layers of framework.