In electronics, one designs a system from smaller components to fulfill a particular function
This is true, and this is a similarity between programming and electronic design. However, this is true of a great many other things too—automobile design, architecture, industrial engineering and manufacturing, design of ships, tanks and aircraft, etc. Are all of these things “basically still programming”?
Are all of these things “basically still programming”?
Hmm. Each of those has even stronger forms of:
My objection to electronics is rather that it has a slower feedback cycle and a higher barrier to entry—to do anything complicated you need all the things you need for programming plus actual parts.
Additionally, it’s easier to destroy things with electronics, and with the other things you describe, even more so.
This is true, and this is a similarity between programming and electronic design. However, this is true of a great many other things too—automobile design, architecture, industrial engineering and manufacturing, design of ships, tanks and aircraft, etc. Are all of these things “basically still programming”?
Hmm. Each of those has even stronger forms of:
Additionally, it’s easier to destroy things with electronics, and with the other things you describe, even more so.