This will get worse with new generations. They grow up on tables and phones where file system is a completely foreign concept. You need an app for everything.

I encountered juniors straight out of school who don’t know what tar is, or rsync, or what a symlink is.

It’s all learnable and everyone starts somewhere. But you’d think natural curiosity would kick in and they’d have picked up some of this on their own by the time they have a job.

The lack of basic computer knowledge I’ve seen from developers is terrifying.

> Considering many people doesn't know what a file is, keeping the spirit alive is important, I think.

Files aren’t sacred. It’s actually troubling that many technical people never consider alternatives. Most of the worlds data today is probably not stored in filesystems, rather in databases and object stores that use custom storage backends.