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The question is are they completely wrong?

When was the last time you had to code a GUI at the point/pixel level, create (from scratch) a database, or do any one of the thousands of things that are nowadays coded and ready to go?

Sure, kids don't know how to PEEK and POKE, but even we don't have to do that, any more. And more and more specialised knowledge is being handled by pre-written code, which, although it can be bulky, wasteful of resources, and slow, compared to bespoke code, it works.

Good programming will likely never something that a layman can pick up quickly, but even with the background tech we have now, code doesn't have to be Good; it only has to work.

If that means importing fifty (resource-hungry, but who cares? Resources are increasing faster than the bloat can keep up) frameworks and jus filling out config files, rather than writing a thousand lines of code, then that's the process.

So I'd say they're not wrong; they're just "otherwise experienced" in how programming works.



That said, it still pisses me off royally; but you've gotta face the future for what it will be, not what you want it to be.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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