[truth_seeker]

what really matters is :

how far can i get in X programming language by writing just idiomatic code?

how much of SDK and community libs, frameworks help me run my program at bare metal speed ?

What sort of change i have to do exisitng libs, frameworks and my legacy code for CPU, IO and memory efficiency as a migrate to new version ?

[pjmlp]

That is only part of the picture, the other part that seems quite forgotten nowadays is:

- how much people actually care about algorithms and data structures

- do they actually know what options their tools have available

- have they ever spend at least an hour reading the man pages, info page or HTML documentations

- have they ever used a profiler, a graphical debugger, an advanced IDE