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by Twisell 1154 days ago
Maybe because we collectively pretty badly handled knowledge transmission between generations.

For the pioneers the most difficult part of learning CS was to get hardware needed. This mostly determined the technological stack they would then learn.

Nowadays hardware is commodity and the main problem is to determine what the hell you should start learning first because you can't learn everything it has now became humanely impossible.

I was born somewhen in the middle. Because of my first field I wish I could have mastered python. But at that time the python2/3 war was at the highest and you couldn't find reliable documentation. Hell even python3 tutorial kept on blabbering about how python2 concept translated. What was i supposed to do? learn both?

That is why I focused on SQL because at least documentation was quite stable (special thanks to PostgreSQL documentation teams).

I can only imaging the nightmare that must endure rookies frontend dev nowadays.