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by theon144 3220 days ago
>the majority of work that programmers do today - frontend/backend web development and apps

Therein lies your bias, and the rest of your comment just follows.

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I'm definitely bias towards frontend/backend web development and apps (I.E. mobile/desktop apps).

But that's not to say the premise is bad - I don't think it's wrong to assume the majority of work is in that area, definitely for young developers. There aren't that many real-time and performance-demanding programming jobs compared to web development.

I don't think even game-programming uses bit operations heavily these days- most of the low-level work is done by third party engines.