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> Perfect! I've worked with a lot of C kernel security devs and I don't think I've ever seen one of them write something not Cish, like python/ruby/go/etc.

There are a couple of us true full-stack developers but you're very right that we're not common. Programming in low-level languages allow you to think about how, precisely, your memory will be laid out, but on the flip side, they require that you think about memory layouts. If you enjoy thinking about such things, you get used to planning for cache optimization and so on, and moving to python requires actively turning that part of your brain off and taking a „que cera cera" attitude to any performance consideration lower level than big-O notation.




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