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Humanity would have to come together to reconstruct Angular and Bootstrap from the ground up.

Thus the end of humanity.

hilarious! Saving humanity with one ng-repeat and btn-primary at a time.

We'd be fine. I have a calculator (and have owned one for about 30 years), but I still remember how to do arithmetic.

That's a very general skill though. You'd be stuck if you encountered a cryptic error message in an obscure library.

We'd retain knowledge of technological advancements, but no one would have to use legacy software.

That's an interesting idea. Someone should write a Martianesque scifi-novel about that kind of struggle.

That is my motivation to learn low level things like kernels, language implementation, etc.