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Good writeup, and certainly food for thought. I wonder if this key point actually holds though: >The skills to do so, however, are a function of someone who has experienced the friction and challenges over time that culminate in "good taste". It's certainly sometimes true, but I don't think it's a general rule. Sometimes friction is just friction and sometimes you spend 1000 hours learning something that disappears a…
> Everything you know about 6800 assembly will not make your note-taking app any better. It could. It could make a simple note-taking app not take gigabytes of memory and take visible delay on each click. Most people don't bother of course because simple note-taking app is not worth the effort. It's possible to do better, it's just often not practical.
A great example is font formats like TrueType and OpenType contain their own built-in instruction sets and code stack that a web browser's font VM executes to render font shape hints.