[immibis]

because programmers should be able to use computers

[mlrtime]

No, they should be able to take business requirements and create performant reliable applications.

They should understand CS/CE core fundamentals but they don't need to know how to admin.

[immibis]

You might not make it your day job but you should definitely understand the fundamentals of how your whole stack works. Everything from transistors to eyeballs.

[jitl]

Your original suggestion didn’t sound didactic in nature. I did enough deploying Perl apps that way to consider it a huge waste of time. No thanks!

[immibis]

Automate it with a shell script