[wldlyinaccurate]

To see a young person say this bolsters my opinion that technology is moving too fast.

Everybody is in such a rush to learn new frameworks, new languages, new toolsets; nobody is learning how to actually _program_. I've worked with people who looked down on me for not knowing WeekOldFramework, but who couldn't architect a simple CRUD application to save their lives.

I feel like so many developers have this "quantity over quality" attitude about knowledge, and it's hurting the industry. With such shallow knowledge, we're doomed to never learn from history and forever write bad software.

Get off my lawn, etc.

[Ixiaus]

It isn't moving to fast. New library x is like going from PHP to Python, true holistic understanding and a grasp of theory goes a long way to enable someone to look past the superficial differences and focus on the substance - everything else falls into place.

It's also not about learning to Program, that's like saying to an adult that knows how to write, learn how to write! That doesn't improve their writing.

It's about thinking. Structured languages (like those used for programming) are Yet Another medium for translating Thought. Learn to think better, learn better tools that enable better thinking (Haskell, Idris, Mercury, etc...)