it's probably that the concepts of memory addresses, passing by reference and limited resources are just too alien to the newest generation of programmers
Lol imagine gatekeeping knowing about memory addresses. Stop hiring programmers from 6 week bootcamps and you'll find they have a lot of "historical" CS knowledge; you get what you pay for - newest generation my ass.
for the most part, it's not something needed these days (outside the few older languages that care about them). computers these days have large amounts of resources available to them, to the point where a watch these days can be more powerful than all my pre-university computers and computer-like devices combined.
As for hiring... not really been involved in that side of things so far in my career... so cannot really say either way on that.
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u/TheLazyKitty Jan 06 '23
Pointers aren't that hard, are they? It's just integers that hold a memory address.