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There is a difference between “knowing a language” and knowing the frameworks, idioms, ecosystems etc.

I could learn Swift in a week but that doesn’t mean I would be a competent iOS developer.

Someone who knew Python couldn’t do anything useful with the type of automation that I do with Boto3 without knowing the intricacies of AWS.




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