Building OS X Apps with JavaScript
That pipe is a C bitwise OR operator. I’m not gonna pretend to know what that means.I'm honestly not being sarcastic, but I think there's something interesting about reading an enjoyable programming article by someone who doesn't know what bitwise OR is. It sorta feels like a huge reminder we've moved on to a whole new generation/level of abstraction where competent developers no longer need to understand binary.I gave a talk the other day about the future of code (think 2024 and on) and one of the biggest things out of my research was that we'll eventually not need to think about intermediate data structures in code anymore as AI profilers, VMs, compilers, etc. will be able to optimize and profile almost everything away with developers working more with specifications and constraints. I wonder if in 10 years' time a programmer not knowing what a linked list or a binary tree is will not be considered unusual either.