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As an engineer, I’m not looking forward to the entire generation(s?) of vibe coders who couldn’t explain what a byte is and the ways one might be stored on a system.
Manual memory management is already relatively niche and not needed for most programming tasks
Bytes is a way to store data. Its unrelated to memory management, even if its automatic.
I wouldn't say unrelated, but anyway what's the broad term for what you are doing when you are being concerned with how bytes are stored then? Whatever that is, there's a generation of coders already who aren't doing so much of it
Endianness.