Low-Level Programming Awareness

If we don't keep raising awareness of low-level programming skills, the skillset will disappear forever under a sea of SDKs, binary blobs and proprietary chips. C programming matters, assembly language matters. Yes, we post a lot about programming languages and it gets people very excited and opinionated. But we do this to raise awareness that there is still a place for low-level code outside of Operating System development....

A screenshot of an FFmpeg post arguing that low-level programming skills, C, and assembly language must not disappear beneath layers of SDKs, binary blobs, and proprietary chips. The joke is the exaggeratedly dramatic advocacy for niche programming knowledge, presented as a serious and opinionated tech-community statement. It is shared as a reaction to debates about programming languages, abstraction, and systems programming. EN: A screenshot of an FFmpeg post arguing that low-level programming skills, C, and assembly language must not disappear beneath layers of SDKs, binary blobs, and proprietary chips. The joke is the exaggeratedly dramatic advocacy for niche programming knowledge, presented as a serious and opinionated tech-community statement. It is shared as a reaction to debates about programming languages, abstraction, and systems programming.

• @gentoomemes / 10112 2024-03-25