I think there is a meme (in the true sense of the word, not a silly picture) where the basis of languages like C and assembler is implanted in say JavaScript and how it does things. For example references vs. values and how this affects closures. Why have a lexical scopes? All this stuff which confuses the fuck out of new programmers, might be simpler if they learned C first.

I think this can trip newbies up. Especially from bootcamps, who don't understand why their code is working, and I feel like replying with "well think about how the object is stored in memory" because none of the stuff that's built on that will make sense without it. I'd like to understand more myself. It would be useful to have some idea of what the compiler is doing with things like lexical scopes. I think that's the only way to really understand them as the abstractions are too leaky.