Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26068391-20151110173640/@comment-27178607-20151110211558

Sinthoniel wrote: If you want to write good code, you still have to know every layer below the API. That's why programmers must learn how a computer internally works although the programming language deals with all that already. This depends on the API.

If you use a "well written" API, than it should be possible to write good code without to know all layers below the API.

But yes, it can be/is very useful to know more.