I used to work on SSD firmware for a long time. There is a lot of technology and individuals involved but to be honest I find learning on the present day web development stack more daunting at times!
That is because the firmware is all about efficiency and reliability is strictly business no f..ng around. This is at least from my experience.
Web is like: look ma, new shiny stack, gotta use it. The amount of tooling involved in creation of even simple things is often staggering without any real need for it. And often if you do not approach webdev in "politically correct" way you can be laughed out of the door.
> webdev in "politically correct" way you can be laughed out of the door
Indeed there's this pile of people who don't know how computers actually work and only have experience as 'web developers' so they pile on level and level of abstraction without concern for performance or even common sense. Don't get me wrong some of the abstractions are very good, but most are founded in ignorance of what technology has gone before and so they eventually collapse due to the problems inherent in their architecture, mostly things that were discovered in the 80's or earlier.
