alt Hacker NewsThat is like arguing everyone should master Assembly when using high level languages. :)
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profunctor • today at 1:34 PM
No it isn’t. I think you read into my comment too much.
That is like arguing everyone should master Assembly when using high level languages. :)
No it isn’t. I think you read into my comment too much.
Which tangentially brings up another analogy: many high level languages don’t compile directly to assembly but to an intermediate language first (LLVM). We don’t read the LLVM code ourselves.