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Abstraction.
That’s been the answer to this question since C became a thing, and took more resources than assembly. This isn’t new, you young fucks.
The other answer is that it is better and has more features. I know... I know... it's a novel concept for many people.
But if you had said, in 2010, that you were going to make a 3d game that ran in all of the major browsers and handled device browsers... you would have been laughed out of the room or you had multiple millions of dollars backing... now a 10 year old can do it in an afternoon.
because of the nested abstraction
While true that they are achieved via abstraction, abstraction doesn't create the better software or the more robust systems.