[throwaway5959]

I feel like that’s kind of like saying we don’t use Assembly anymore now that we have C. We’ve just built higher level abstractions on top of it.

[falcor84]

Yeah, that's exactly how I read the question, i.e. analogous to "does anyone still code in assembly, or has everyone switched to using abstractions?" and I think it's a very interesting one.

[KaiserPro]

Its more like does anyone use goto.

Why use map:reduce when you can have an entire DAG for fanout/in?