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by scuff3d 226 days ago
That might be a problem in the frontend/JavaScript world, but I think people forget the industry is a lot bigger than web dev. I've managed to go my whole career without ever having to write a single line of JavaScript.

But to be fair your point, and the original authors, isn't a bad one. And I think someone else in this thread said it too. If you're only skill is typing out code against a very narrow spec that someone else did all the work to figure out, you're probably in trouble.