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by safaci2000 1499 days ago
to be fair, a kernel dev is so far down his rabbit hole that web services and web tech is not something that they're particularly interested in. They also know intricate details on what my kernel does that I have no hope of ever understand or desire to. They exceed at what they're passionate about.
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I'll say that many systems programmers are less effective at their jobs because they don't understand applications programming.

You see it in frameworks like ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, etc.

Someone once said that Rust is so effective, because it the first big project built with it wasn't just a compiler.