Why Lazy?

Question

Why is there a trend for high-level programming languages now? People are even too lazy to create their own data structures!

Answer 1

I took a tour of a amazon fulfillment center a year ago. There was a big sign near the beginning saying “No one cares about your effort. They care about your results”
If you want to spend your life coding at a low level, that may seem like a very noble pursuit to you but it isn’t something anyone cares about.(unless you make complex software go faster). People want you to code for them to get results. Higher level languages speed things up.

Answer 2

Creating a good, powerful data structure requires a lot of experience. Rarely does such an attempt surpass the standard API (Java). If you can use something existing and cheap (free), writing it from scratch is expensive extra work. You still need to know the standard existing types in the API. Similarly, rarely is the standard API insufficient or cannot be extended. Writing your own data types is great if you want to learn how these structures work internally and what the people who develop them encounter.