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double standards in the world of computers
It kinda makes me mad how folks are very happy to embrace domain specific complexity as essential, but when it comes to computer science and programming language stuff they dismiss it as overly academic bollocks.
It's quite normal to hear people dismiss a programming language as "too academic" but (outside of the cryptocurrency world) you don't hear someone point to a security flaw and say, "Maybe that's just too complicated to deal with and we should ignore it?"
Is it so absurd to imagine that people who work on algorithms, objects fundamentally of artificially sustained thought, might have to slowly build up sophisticated thought-based tools over time to help them? Roofers don't go, "It's way too complicated to use asphalt tiling on roofs, it was simpler when we just nailed on wooden shingles, we should go back to that" and get taken seriously; your house would burn down.
re: double standards in the world of computers
All these folks who say, "I don't wanna worry about if this loop is safe I just want to make a game or a webpage?"
Yeah, cool. I get that. We should make you better tools. But even making those tools, maybe SOMEONE ELSE needs the more fundamental and strictly more powerful tooling to get shit done and you dropping fat turds from above the complexity stack downwards because this world intimidates you ISN'T HELPING ANYONE.
re: double standards in the world of computers
My other worry is that people don't seem to get that by assuming the primary role of an integrator higher and higher up the stack, they're ceding their hardware and their freedom to folks making those tools. If you don't understand how the pieces below you fit together (at least roughly, if not at a line-by-line level) then you're pretty much doomed to always be at someone else's mercy, because you've convinced yourself you have to be subservient to them otherwise you won't have a computing platform.