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I agree wholeheartedly.

I don't know, maybe 20 years ago average young computer hobbyists were writing small OSes, but today, people write websites and mobile apps. 20 years ago everything was simpler. You could learn about ins and outs of 8086 in a week, and it was "practical" to have such low-level access to hardware. Today, the landscape has changed. We should change too.



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