He is talking (I believe) about the general trend of nudging, cajoling more and more coders into using managed, very high level, safe languages and runtimes, and in general discouraging peeking under the hood, at the hardware level, as something raw, wild or unsafe. Yes you can still do it on a RPi, but perhaps in another decade or so, you might not be allowed to program in 'unsafe' languages on all other mainstream platforms, unless you register for a driver/system developer license or something, or not even that.
The tinkerer/hacker ethos is disappearing slowly from PCs. It never caught on in the mobile world. It may perhaps only survive as a remnant in specialised chips and boards designed for learning.
The tinkerer/hacker ethos is disappearing slowly from PCs. It never caught on in the mobile world. It may perhaps only survive as a remnant in specialised chips and boards designed for learning.