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by knivets 1929 days ago
> As JavaScript developers, the sheer amount of stuff we're expected to know is enormous, and it grows bigger every day.

A question to ponder over: expected by whom?

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Expected by people themselves. Learn your fundamentals, get basic proficiency in maybe 1 or 2 frameworks and you're done. People drive themselves mad thinking they need to know everything. Most of "everything" is irrelevant, the rest you can pick up on the job.
The pedantic circle jerk, why’d you ask? No one’s moving the needle other than the neurotics when it comes to this stuff.

One of the few fraternities I’m ashamed to be apart of.

Business requirements.