High-level is the goal (but why?)

A talk I gave in 2023 laying out my vision and hope for the Handmade programming community. This talk is also available in blog post form: https://bvisness.me/high-level/

People who have heard of "Handmade" programming usually associate it with low-level programming. This makes sense, because the whole community was spawned by Handmade Hero, Casey Muratori's famous series where he creates a game and engine live on stream, completely from scratch, without libraries. But how is this approach to programming tenable? Should no one ever use libraries? Shouldn't we strive for higher-level, more expressive ways of programming? If so, what is the point of low-level programming these days?

Links:
Handmade Hero (the series that started it all): https://handmadehero.org/
Handmade Network (a community inspired by Handmade Hero, which I lead): https://handmade.network/
My website: https://bvisness.me/


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Original credit: Handmade Cities, recorded at the now-defunct Handmade Seattle conference, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND. Neither I nor the Handmade Network are in any way associated with or affiliated with Handmade Cities.