Typescript will be the new 'assembly' for this generation of programmers.
- Typescript will be the new 'assembly'[rk] for this generation of programmers.
- Every generation of programmers has a new "assembly".
- That is, a raw, nearly inscrutable, lower level of programming, that is below the everyday level that they are comfortable with.
- Each generation adds a new level of abstraction.
- Back in the day you could only do assembly.
- Then the next generation got C, dropping to assembly only when necessary.
- In that era, programmers had a superficial understanding of assembly–they could understand it but probably not write it by hand.
- This continued up the stack of higher and higher levels of abstraction.
- Now LLMs allow vibecoding; programming without having to look carefully at it.
- The next level above that is vibe prompting.