Don't forget us over in hpc and embedded! What are these web things, and why do have stacks of them? But more seriously, I'm a very experienced systems programmer but I like stuff like eframe and trunk because it lets me serve up a gui I write in rust like it was a native app as a wasm page without having to know anything at all about web stuff or how many stacks to put the web thingies in. Perhaps someday the wasi will bypass all the js and html deep magic I don't understand, but not yet.

I rarely do any of that, usually my abstractions are container layers, a libc, and then a kernel between me and registers and dma. But that is a lot more layers than you'd think. I can't even understand the boot process on a modern machine with tpm. And i have no clue how many processors or controllers are in my computer. Every usb controller has an entire arm core in it, mice and keyboards have 8051 running c-ish code someone somewhere wrote, there is no bottom to the complexity.

I am technically q full stack dev and I don't grok how aspnet core actually generates the web requests. It's layers upon layers of magic to me.

Similar with mediatr, I know conceptually that it "just" checks for the right classes in the loaded assemblies. But still feels like some weird incantation to use, to me. And I have such huge knowledge holes across all layers.

Sometimes i feel my lack of knowledge to such a degree, that I question whether I should even be a programmer.