They say high-level abstractions make code clean and bright,
But deep in kernel space is where I spend my night.
Where others see complexity, I see pure delight:
Register dancing, bit-shifting - such a gorgeous sight.
According to the Linux Kernel Archives, only 2% of developers work at the kernel level. Yet these dedicated systems programmers maintain the core that powers 96.3% of the world's top million servers.
When's the last time you wrote a device driver just for fun?
First published: 2023-11-15