The curriculum isn't being removed from existence, it's just being removed from the introductory classes. There are probably more people making their own OS from scratch in 2023 than in 1993 anyway--we have many more people with access to computers, and tons of free resources online for people who want to learn computer architecture, operating systems, assembly language, etc. This is not some kind of hypothetical supposition that "there must be people out there"; I know for a fact these people are out there because I keep meeting them, and some of them are damn young.
The idea of genius men making stuff from first principles is just some kind of Hollywood schlock version of programming anyway. It's the stuff you see on NCIS when they make an episode about hackers. All the good stuff has been a team effort, even if it starts out as a solo project. Maybe with a few exceptions like cURL.
The idea of genius men making stuff from first principles is just some kind of Hollywood schlock version of programming anyway. It's the stuff you see on NCIS when they make an episode about hackers. All the good stuff has been a team effort, even if it starts out as a solo project. Maybe with a few exceptions like cURL.