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I'm an old software dev.

To be sure, when I began a good dev was good at memory management (ha, ha).

More recently, a good dev is one that is good at concurrency.

New devs might not understand memory management, should they though? Has everyone come across (at least once) where a junior dev creating an "integer object"? Or perhaps an object to represent a character?

When I began I rarely even saw a single secondary thread in code, very rarely saw the need to create one. Then again, one core machines so.




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