Abstractions are convenience. They’re not free, there is a cost to any work you ask the computer to do. Just staying at the surface level and never understanding what’s under the top level is why software is slow and bloated today. You’re supposed to move beyond the abstraction, understand what you need underneath and use what you really want to do the task.
No wonder we boot up entire browser engines to write simple text editors. But hey, we gotta be first to market to get that VC money, right?
No wonder we boot up entire browser engines to write simple text editors. But hey, we gotta be first to market to get that VC money, right?