>but will completely cut out future generations from system programming for the web
There's so many things where my competence is based on understanding the simple preceding system plus a good intuition of how the class of systems tend to be bungled up over the years. We don't pay down the accumulated complexity, and newcomers don't get the same luxury I do.
It really becomes noticeable with highschoolers and I have to chose between teaching useless but illustrative groundwork, or just explaining and expecting a combination of taking it on faith and memorization.
There's so many things where my competence is based on understanding the simple preceding system plus a good intuition of how the class of systems tend to be bungled up over the years. We don't pay down the accumulated complexity, and newcomers don't get the same luxury I do.
It really becomes noticeable with highschoolers and I have to chose between teaching useless but illustrative groundwork, or just explaining and expecting a combination of taking it on faith and memorization.