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by markus_zhang 96 days ago
Maybe it is just my experience, because I'm not a system programmer, but instead learning it. I find that concepts in system programming are not really very hard to understand (e.g. log-based file system is the one I'm reading about today), but the implementation, the actual coding, the actual weaving of the system, is most of the fun/grit. Maybe it is just me, but I find that for system programming, I have to implement every part of it, before claiming that I understand it.