Wait, but what about designing the chips to run your CPU? Or synthesizing the silicon to print your chip onto? You surely know how to mine for the precursor elements for solder, too, right?

The world is changing. Our industry is changing every day, week, and year. Developers before you laughed at your high level C while they were using punch cards.

The successful ones realize this and adapt.

You judge, yet I've spent the last few days doing some amazing things with d3.js and I'm all over modern web dev. Being able and not liking the state of it are completely different.

HN gives makes me feel like I'm on a JS subreddit sometimes..

I used to call this place Hacker Node back in 2011. But I'm used to it now. If it wasn't JS, it'd just be another language/platform/library.

NPM is a wonderful thing. Sure it has some perf. issues, but JS is growing faster than ever because of it.

And RN is awesome as well. RN for front-end devs is kinda what Bootstrap is for back-end devs (or any dev that doesn't like to touch HTML/CSS). Let's just be happy that we are making progress as a community and be a bit more open-minded.

Isn't the advancement of computer science towards further abstraction?

No. You still need to teach the fundamentals or you'll run out of people to do everything low level. It's no longer a science when it's wishy washy high level

Pointer arithmetic is really not that hard. It's not something worthy to be proud of.