[deviantfero]

I wonder if that is the ideal path though, I was an instructor for a few subjects in my university and sometimes the biggest detractor for students was the lack of familiarity with the tool set used by the language,

for example, people sometimes did not know how to freeze their dependencies and use python virtual environments when working with python projects, that lead to problems in collaboration, handing students "magic" prefabricated environments could lead them to believe that that's all there is to it, and explaining that it is not to the student in an edge case might end up being less productive than understanding this process from the get go

you could say that the _effort_ to set up a development machine should be part of the learning experience, at least that's what I think.

I remember seeing my classmates having their first freelance jobs and editing minified css/javascript directly because they did not know anything about the transpiling that goes on or the toolset surrounding javascript and web development

[seanp2k2]

It’s even funnier when those same devs who struggle with packaging and distribution in their best language go on to work at Fortune 500 companies and require constant devops assistance to actually make what they wrote work in even a test env. “But it works on my laptop!”

[nsomaru]

“Yes, but we are not shipping your laptop!”