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The only thing that matters is outcomes.

If simplified frameworks let people make things, that's awesome in my opinion. More of that!

Low level technical stuff has its place too; but the use cases are far far fewer. Its really much more important as a developer that you can produce something and show it to people, than that you have a detailed knowledge of the platform.



That only works until something goes wrong, which it does regularly because the overall quality of the components that are usually used is mediocre.

I would hesitate to build anything without a technical expert on hand.


In a couple of years I can imagine people going, "back in my days we had to use Ruby on Rails and Django to make websites...you kids have it too easy these days and don't understand a thing about the lower level stuff.."


I doubt the point is that "Booho things are too easy for you! :(". The point is that there's nothing interesting for a "old-school" programmer in the world we're progressing towards.




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