Systems Programming
Applications sit atop rich system libraries: layers of code for networking, graphical interfaces, multitasking, file access, multimedia, peripheral control, inter-process communication, and more. If applications programmers receive a lot of support from the underlying system, then someone’s got to supply that underlying system. This is systems programming.
It is generally for workstation machines too, but it’s not aimed at the end users. Systems software is aimed at the application developer; the public façade is a set of APIs to be used by software layers higher up the food chain. Systems software is concerned with the low-level logic that interacts with the computer at a very basic level, and also middle-level support frameworks ...
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