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by halfus 3168 days ago
I don't fully agree that we're "past" it.

It's definitely out of fashion, but when something complicated breaks, where is the "adult" you call to figure it out? :)

I do 100% agree that commercial systems / enterprise / game dev is past the low level era, but the knowledge of the area is anything but obsolete for the reason I mentioned before.