alt Hacker NewsThe grass is always greener on the other side - many low-level programmers feel like an imposter when it comes to high-level systems such as CRUD apps.
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-drews • yesterday at 8:05 PM
I felt this way moving from embedded into backend for the first time and having no idea where to start. Was incredibly daunting, but both domains become trivial over time.
irishcoffee • yesterday at 7:58 PM
They don't. The "simplicity" of using a "high-level" framework for someone who bit-shifts for a living is almost comical.
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Can confirm, my buddy who is someone I respect immensely, is an embedded programmer.
He will talk about OS events, or any low level concept and it makes me feel like I don’t know anything, but he acts like I’m a genius if I talk about JavaScript Runtimes, browser engines, anything frontend.
It’s cool he teaches me new things, I teach him some