> But would that be like watching my CPU decode and fetch instructions, interesting but completely useless for most practical applications, or like a debugger introspecting a running process, an incredible useful tool?
It would be like watching the cloud of electrons moving over transistors across an entire chip, without the benefit of knowing quantum mechanics. Except in this analogy, everyone is in the same boat and working on a single codebase that's the surviving vestige of billions of years of "just good enough" coders fighting it out, so every little bit helps.
It would be like watching the cloud of electrons moving over transistors across an entire chip, without the benefit of knowing quantum mechanics. Except in this analogy, everyone is in the same boat and working on a single codebase that's the surviving vestige of billions of years of "just good enough" coders fighting it out, so every little bit helps.